This week, DataBreaches.net was reminded yet again of the risks of trying to alert an entity to a breach. This time, it was not me who was threatened or any of the whitehat researchers I know. This week, it was a citizen who found patient records on the street in his town and undertook to…
Category: Exposure
Katy ISD staff info, including Social Security numbers, released
KTRK reports: Katy ISD said the birth dates and Social Security numbers of its employees were “inadvertently” released. […] According to officials, the information was sent out in response to a routine request for an employee list. Read more on ABC13. This is not the first breach involving employees’ personal information, although in a bigger…
Bug bounty firm HackerOne suffers ‘sloppy cut-and-paste’ breach
Eva Short reports: … in an ironic turn of fortunes for the firm, HackerOne has now paid out a $20,000 bounty for the identification of a bug on its own platform. The hacker in question, user ‘haxta4ok00’, had been communicating with one of HackerOne’s security analysts last month. Throughout the course of the conversation, the…
JP: More HDDs with personal data found to be auctioned
Officials of Kanagawa Prefecture say nine more hard disk drives with taxpayers’ personal information are still missing in addition to another nine drives that have been recovered. The 18 HDDs were auctioned away online by a worker of a recycling firm in violation of contracts. Read more on NHK.
A Sprint contractor left thousands of US cell phone bills on the internet by mistake
Zack Whittaker reports: A contractor working for cell giant Sprint stored on an unprotected cloud server hundreds of thousands of cell phone bills of AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile subscribers. […] U.K.-based penetration testing company Fidus Information Security found the exposed data, but it wasn’t immediately clear who owned the bucket. Read more on TechCrunch.
NZ: Police investigating potential privacy breach of firearms buyback database
1NewsNow reports: Police say they are investigating after a member of the public made them aware of a potential privacy breach involving the firearms buyback programme. In a statement, police said they were made aware by the person today, and that the online notification platform for the buy-back programme has been closed down while they…