Stuff reports: Vector and Stuff may reach an agreement outside of court after some of Vector’s customer data was revealed as a result of a data breach. Last week, Stuff revealed that a glitch in an app designed by Vector meant the names, email addresses, physical location and phone numbers of customers who used the app were visible…
Category: Exposure
Ph: NPC orders Wendy’s PH to inform users affected by data breach
ABS-CBN reports: The National Privacy Commission (NPC) has ordered Wendy’s Philippines to notify users affected by the data breach on its website on April 23. The order dated May 2 was released after the fast food chain notified the commission that its website was infiltrated and that personal data of users were obtained and published…
Capital Digestive Care patient data exposed by vendor error
Sometimes by the time a notification appears on a state breach notification site, I’ve forgotten whether I ever reported it or not. Case in point: Capital Digestive Care in Maryland. I knew about it on February 22, and helped make the notification to them to get them to investigate it (it turned out to be…
Personal information found in dumpster behind tax prep office in Lancaster County
Brian Roche reports: The personal information of roughly two dozen people was found in an open dumpster in Lancaster County. An anonymous tip a few days ago directed 8 On Your Side consumer reporter Brian Roche to the dumpster behind a Liberty Tax Service office on Willow Street Pike that just closed last week. Read…
MAXIMUS notifies 3,029 patients after Business Ink mailing error exposes PHI
The following was the notification MAXIMUS sent out on April 17 and that they kindly provided to this site today. There was also a Spanish-language version: MAXIMUS today notified approximately 1,100 Texas families participating in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) of a printing error that resulted in some program participants receiving a…
Data Breach Leaves Bezop ICO Participants Exposed
Ian Edwards reports: An unsecured database containing the sensitive private data of over 25,000 investors in the Bezop Network ICO was recently discovered, cybersecurity firm Kromtech said in a recent report. A MongoDB database containing “full names, addresses, email addresses, encrypted passwords, wallet information, along with links to scanned passports, driver’s licenses, and other IDs”…