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MY: Health Ministry investigating leak of patient records

Posted on September 19, 2019 by Dissent

Sira Habibu reports: KUALA LUMPUR: The Health Ministry is investigating reports of a data leak involving the patient records of nearly 20,000 Malaysians. […] He was responding to the Sept 16 report by Greenbone Network report claiming that information on 19,992 radiological reports from Malaysia was freely accessible on computer servers worldwide. Read more on…

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Telecommunications Breakdown: How Russian Telco Infrastructure was Exposed

Posted on September 18, 2019 by Dissent

UpGuard reports: UpGuard can now disclose that a storage device containing 1.7 terabytes of information detailing telecommunications installations throughout the Russian Federation has been secured, preventing any future malicious use. This data includes schematics, administrative credentials, email archives, and other materials relating to telecom infrastructure projects. Read more on UpGuard.

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Arrest made in Ecuador’s massive data breach

Posted on September 17, 2019 by Dissent

How many times have you wanted to see someone charged criminally for negligence or leaving data exposed?  Well, here you go…. Catalin Cimpanu reports: Ecuadorian authorities have arrested the executive of a data analytics firm after his company left the personal records of most of Ecuador’s population exposed online on an internet server. The arrest…

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Gootkit malware crew left their database exposed online without a password

Posted on September 17, 2019 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports: The criminal gang behind the Gootkit malware has made the same mistake that thousands of legitimate companies have made before them in the past years — they left MongoDB databases connected to the internet without a password. The leak allowed security researcher Bob Diachenko to download all group’s data and gain an…

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Data of 24.3 million Lumin PDF users shared on hacking forum

Posted on September 17, 2019 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports: The details of over 24.3 million Lumin PDF users have been shared today on a hacking forum, ZDNet has learned from a source. The hacker said they leaked the company’s data after Lumin PDF administrators failed to answer his queries multiple times over the past few months. Read more on ZDNet.

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Database leaks data on most of Ecuador’s citizens, including 6.7 million children

Posted on September 16, 2019 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports: The personal records of most of Ecuador’s population, including children, has been left exposed online due to a misconfigured database, ZDNet has learned. The database, an Elasticsearch searver, was discovered two weeks ago by vpnMentor security researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, who shared their findings exclusively with ZDNet. Together, we worked…

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