Malavika Menon reports: Swedish retailer Ikea yesterday apologised to affected customers in Singapore after the company inserted 410 individual e-mail addresses in the wrong message field of a promotional mailer and sent it out. A spokesman for Ikea Singapore said the incident occurred at 4.57pm last Thursday and that it “regretfully made an error of…
Category: Exposure
E3 Website Accidentally Doxed Contact Info for 2,000 Journalists
Michael Kan reports: The organizer behind the E3 gaming convention has messed up bad by accidentally leaking the contact information to more than 2,000 journalists who attended the show this year. For some reason, E3’s public website featured a link to a spreadsheet containing the sensitive information, which includes email addresses, addresses and phone numbers…
Ca: Patient horrified after medical information left at curb outside London walk-in clini
Andrew Lupton reports: Ontario’s information and privacy commissioner is investigating after a clear plastic bag containing documents with patient names and medication information was left at the curb outside a London walk-in clinic. One patient whose information was in the bag said she’s furious the papers weren’t shredded. Read more on CBC.
Up to Ten Thousand Customers Possibly Affected in Aegon Life Insurance Data Leak
Anuj Srivas reports: New Delhi: The personal data of up to 10,000 customers of Aegon Life Insurance customers may have been exposed publicly due to a security vulnerability on the company’s website. The data that was exposed included everything from basic demographic information – such as name, age, gender, mobile phone numbers – to more…
Data Leak Exposes Personal ID’s of Over 14 Million Chilean Citizens
Chase Williams reports: WizCase has discovered a database leak that contains identifiable information for over 14 million Chilean residents, aged 17+. The 3 GB database was hosted by Softlayer Technologies in Dallas, Texas, USA, but they are not responsible for the leak. What’s Going On Daniel Brown, a cybersecurity team leader at WizCase and white-hat…
More Than 4 Billions of Record Exposed from an Unknown Elastic Search Database
Leon writes: In March 2019, I found an unsecured Elasticsearch database which contains more than 4 billion records. The database was sensitive as it contains a lot of PII details as well as Geo-Coordinates of the vehicles meaning the location of the transportation vehicle is tracked and seems to be of an unknown company which…