Chris Pandolfo reports: The Swiss hacker known as “maia arson crimew” blogged Thursday that she discovered the Transportation Security Administration “no fly” list from 2019 and a trove of data belonging to CommuteAir on an unsecured Amazon Web Services cloud server used by the airline. The hacker told The Daily Dot the list appeared to have more…
Category: Exposure
WA: Pierce County accidentally shared SSN info linked to hundreds of thousands of voters
Shea Johnson reports: Pierce County inadvertently shared the last four Social Security digits for more than 463,000 registered voters in response to a public records request, spokeswoman Libby Catalinich said Wednesday. The sensitive information was sent by mistake last month to one person who sought public voter registration records from the county, Catalinich told The…
Bits ‘n Pieces (Trozos y Piezas)
CR: Ministry of Public Works and Transportation Hit by Ransomware Costa Rica’s Ministry of Public Works and Transportation (MOPT) has been the target of a ransomware attack by as yet unidentified individuals. The attack was reported by the Ministry of Science, Innovation, Technology and Telecommunications (MICITT) (machine translation): Since early hours of this Tuesday, the…
ICE releases thousands of immigrants affected by data breach
Hamed Aleaziz reports: Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have released nearly 3,000 immigrants whose personal information, including birth dates and detention locations, was inadvertently posted on the internet by the U.S. government, according to government officials. Officials accidentally posted the names, birth dates, nationalities and detention locations of more than 6,000 immigrants who claimed to…
A Police App Exposed Secret Details About Raids and Suspects
Dhruv Mehrotra reports: Last September, law enforcement agents from five counties in Southern California coordinated an operation to investigate, raid, and arrest more than 600 suspected sex offenders. The mission, Operation Protect the Innocent, was one of the largest such raids in years, involving over 64 agencies. According to the Los Angeles Police Department, it was coordinated…
January 6 Committee Exposes 2,000 Social Security Numbers of Republicans & Family Members in Massive Dox
Becker News has a commentary that begins: The January 6 committee exposed little new during its 18-month exercise in tedious political theatrics advertised under the banner of being an “investigation.” This J6 “investigation” failed to give us any new info on the DNC pipe bomber, why Ray Epps is free when he said he “orchestrated”…