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Open Enrollment: How HCL Exposed Employee Passwords and Project Data

Posted on May 21, 2019 by Dissent

UpGuard reports: In the course of performing data leaks investigation on behalf of an UpGuard client, a member of the UpGuard Data Breach Research team discovered publicly accessible information belonging to technology services provider HCL. The public data included personal information and plaintext passwords for new hires, reports on installations of customer infrastructure, and web…

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Millions of Instagram influencers had their private contact data scraped and exposed

Posted on May 21, 2019 by Dissent

Zack Whittaker reports: A massive database containing contact information of millions of Instagram influencers, celebrities and brand accounts has been found online. The database, hosted by Amazon Web Services, was left exposed and without a password allowing anyone to look inside. At the time of writing, the database had over 49 million records — but…

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Unsecured Survey Database Exposes Info of 8 Million People

Posted on May 18, 2019 by Dissent

Lawrence Abrams reports: An unsecured database has exposed the personal information of 8 million people from the U.S. who participated in online surveys, sweepstakes, and requests for free product samples. […] Sanyam Jain, an independent security researcher and member of the GDI Foundation, discovered an unsecured Elasticsearch database that exposed the personal information of 8 million people who…

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Burger King’s Online Store for Kids Exposes Customers’ Info

Posted on May 16, 2019 by Dissent

Oops, I had missed this one last week.  Sergiu Gatlan reported: An unprotected Elasticsearch cluster found via a Shodan search exposed 37,900 records of Kool King Shop customers, a French online shop specifically tailored to be used by kids who bought Burger King menus. As Security Discovery researcher Bob Diachenko discovered after further investigation, the…

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Update: West Hartford officials warn parents of test registration platform data breach

Posted on May 15, 2019 by Dissent

Doug Levin kindly alerted me that the Hartford Courant has a story on the Total Registration data security incident.  … The school officials said that Total Registration, used by the district to register students for certain exams, informed them that certain information provided by students including name, grade level, gender, date of birth, address, email…

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Seven months after learning of a breach, UCSD still has not notified HIV research participants whose privacy was breached

Posted on May 15, 2019 by Dissent

Brad Racino and Jill Castellano report on what sounds like either willful or negligent handling of highly sensitive information of research participants bu a non-profit participating in some university-funded research.  In either event, the university was notified of a breach in October and STILL hasn’t notified the research participants with HIV whose data was available…

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