Simeon Thomas-Wilson reports: Medical records of more than 7000 people were exposed online for 13 years, forcing an urgent review by SA Health into whether there were any other breaches. Names, date of birth and test results for around 7200 pathology tests at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital from 1996 to 2005 were leaked online…
Category: Exposure
Web doc iCliniq plugs leaky S3 bucket full of medical files
Another data leak by an Indian firm, it seems. John Leyden reports on this one: Online medical consultation service iCliniq has restricted access to thousands of medical documents it left in a public AWS S3 bucket. iCliniq acted earlier this week only after the slip-up was brought to its attention by German security researcher Matthias…
Credit Card Issuer TCM Bank Leaked Applicant Data for 16 Months
Brian Krebs reports: TCM Bank, a company that helps more than 750 small and community U.S. banks issue credit cards to their account holders, said a Web site misconfiguration exposed the names, addresses, dates of birth and Social Security numbers of thousands of people who applied for cards between early March 2017 and mid-July 2018….
EXCLUSIVE: Creditmate.in developer’s goof left 19,000 consumers’ credit reports unsecured
By Dissent Doe and Lee Johnstone On July 27, an independent researcher known as “Flash Gordon” (@s7sins on Twitter) contacted DataBreaches.net and Lee Johnstone to report that during a routine keyword search on Google, he had found numerous credit reports from Indian consumers exposed. Identifying the owner of the database was not easy in this…
Forum post claims breach of 850k users’ information; leak from recruitmilitary.com?
Lee Johnstone reports on a leak involving a non-profit organization that tries to match employers with job seekers who are veterans: Today a user has posted a new thread to a known forum that makes claim of an breach of over 850,000 US military officers personal information. The user who goes by the name booloop…
Department of Human Services Alerts HHS and Pennsylvanians of Compass System Error
If you are like me, you might not realize from their original headline, “Department of Human Services Alerts Pennsylvanians of Compass System Error” that they’re talking about a breach involving PHI. I just figured North was pointing South for a while or something like that…. Anyway, here is the notice that explains their recent report…