If you’re not reading Catalin Cimpanu every day or following him on Twitter, you’re missing some good stuff. Here’s what he reported a few days ago: The takedown of three major Dark Web markets by law enforcement officials over the summer has driven many vendors of illegal products to set up their own shops that,…
Category: Exposure
AU: Sensitive ABC data exposed in leak
Nick Evans reports: Sensitive details of many of the ABC’s commercial customers have been exposed in a major data breach, according to a German IT security firm, potentially offering up a “trove of data” on its business activities. Kromtech Security Centre said yesterday ABC Commercial, the publicly funded broadcaster’s licensing, retail and publishing business, accidentally…
SG: School’s data breach spooks students
Jan Lee reports: Ex-students from Xinmin Secondary School received a shock yesterday when they found out that their alma mater had suffered a data breach. Several told The New Paper they received calls from their former school yesterday, informing them that their names and identity card numbers had been leaked on pastebin.com, self-described as “where…
UK: Consultants’ letters about 9 patients given to wrong patient
Elgan Hearn reports that the ICO is investigating a breach involving sensitive information of nine patients. An envelope containing the nine letters from a consultant for patients right across Shropshire were wrongly included in a letter sent to a patient in Newtown. The envelope was passed on to health campaigner Cllr Joy Jones, who brought the…
Pentagon Exposed Some Of Its Data On Amazon Server
CNN reports: A researcher says the Pentagon exposed huge amounts of web-monitoring data in a security failure. Anyone with a free Amazon Web Services account could have looked at the hoard of information stored in the cloud by the U.S. Defense Department, according to Chris Vickery, a researcher at cybersecurity firm UpGuard who discovered the exposure. Read more…
Another day, another email gaffe
The Department of Social and Health Services’ Behavioral Health Administration confirmed Thursday that a spreadsheet containing private information of 515 patients at Western State Hospital was sent to an incorrect email address. Read more on QFox13.