IndiaToday reports: …… Bengaluru police goofed up too when it came to handling privacy concerns of Bengaluru citizens. The police department posted phone numbers of thousands of citizens on their Twitter handle (@BCPCR) who called 100 and complained against harassment, quarrels, and gambling etc. The police posted over 46,000 tweets online since April 2015 sharing…
Category: Exposure
Scottrade Bank data breach exposes 20,000 customer records
Steve Ragan reports: Scottrade Bank, a subsidiary of Scottrade Financial Services, Inc., recently secured a MSSQL database containing sensitive information on at least 20,000 customers that was inadvertently left exposed to the public. The database was discovered by MacKeeper researcher Chris Vickery on March 31, when he was searching for random phrases on the domain…
North Carolina data breaches expose internal documents, personal records
Colin Wood reports: North Carolina state government experienced two data breaches, according to reports released Tuesday. Security research firm MacKeeper reported a statewide data breach that occurred last month exposing internal documents spread across the offices, divisions and departments of Administration, Health and Human Services, Medical Assistance, Cultural Resources, Public Safety, State Controller, State Budget…
Data leak exposes details of 450,000 lottery subscribers
DutchNews.nl reports: Nearly half a million subscribers to charity lotteries have been warned that their personal details may have been compromised by a data leak. The BankGiro Loterij, Postcode Loterij and VriendenLoterij took out newspaper adverts alerting players to a security vulnerability that could give hackers access to the names, addresses and e-mail addresses of…
Government admits your Aadhaar data has been leaked
Yatish Yadav reports: If you have an Aadhaar Card and if your bank accounts and other sensitive information are linked to it, chances are that your data is no longer secure. For the first time, the Modi government has officially acknowledged that personal identity of individuals, including Aadhaar number and other sensitive information, has been…
Data breach as details about MPs’ staff published in error
BBC reports: Confidential personal information about 3,000 MPs’ staff and their salaries has been mistakenly published by the expenses watchdog. IPSA said staff names and details about their working and holiday patterns was available for about four hours on an old version of its website on Thursday. It insisted that no addresses, bank account details…