While the folks at Denuvo are leaders in the field of video game protection, the same cannot be said about their website. In an embarrassing blunder, the company has left some directories and files open to the public and right now members of the cracking community are downloading and scrutinizing the contents. Read more on…
Category: Exposure
UK: Hundreds of confidential email addresses were shared with landlords operating in Cardiff
Seriously? Still? Cardiff council says it will investigate after hundreds of confidential email addresses were published. Landlords who are on the mailing list for Rent Smart Wales received an email on Thursday from a Cardiff council email address. In that email, the email addresses of all recipients were visible. Read more on WalesOnline.
PIP Printing and Marketing Services exposed 400GB of data, including personal information
MacKeeper Security Research Center reports that PIP Printing and Marketing Services, a franchise of Franchise Services in California, was leaking data: The majority of 400+ GB server is dedicated to design files and images relating to the printing business. The most sensitive information is contained within the “Outlook archives” and “Scans” folders. These contain around…
Info of 200,000 Indycar race fans exposed in misconfigured backup
Chris Vickery writes: The online security of over 200,000 Indycar racing fans was put in jeopardy recently. Earlier this month I discovered a large collection of publicly exposed MySQL database backup files at an IP resolving to ims-mysql.indycar.com. The majority of these backups appear to be merely operational, but what stands out are the Indycar…
Doctor email breached patient privacy: Eastern Health says 122 patients involved
CBC News reports: Eastern Health and Memorial University’s Faculty of Medicine are advising of a privacy breach Monday after a doctor emailed researchers “tuberculosis-related health information” involving 122 patients. According to the health authority, the physician — who was not named — shared the information with other researchers as a part of a grant application for…
Payroll service mistakenly ships packages with W-2 records to wrong address — twice
It’s worrying that once again, criminals are successfully tricking employees into emailing employees’ W-2 data to them. But how about when a company just mails out W-2’s to the wrong address – and not once, but twice? The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that Paychex, a payroll service, has twice shipped scores of confidential salary records and other documents to…