Mark Jackson reports: A security flaw in the third-party service that Virgin Media uses to process new job applications could have exposed the personal CV details of between 30,000 and 50,000 people to the Internet. A student called Alikhan Uzakov discovered the problem while filling out an application form for the operator (like this one). At this point he…
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More than 5,000 people exposed in Habitat for Humanity data breach
Dell Cameron reports: A massive data breach earlier this month at Habitat for Humanity exposed the personal information of thousands of individuals, including their Social Security numbers. Habitat for Humanity of Michigan’s virtual hard drive backups, which contained more than 400GB of information, were discovered online by an Austin-based security researcher in early October. The…
Australia’s biggest data breach sees 1.3m records leaked
Allie Coyne reports: More than one million personal and medical records of Australian citizens donating blood to the Red Cross Blood Service have been exposed online in the country’s biggest and most damaging data breach to date. A 1.74 GB file containing 1.28 million donor records going back to 2010, published to a publicly-facing website,…
MT: Credit union tells customers about possible security breach
AP reports thatRocky Mountain Credit Union in Montana has notified 135 of its members that some of their personal information could have been publicly accessible through its website between April 15 and June 30. President and CEO Ed Stofko says the information technology staff found a security issue with the website customers used to upload documents while applying…
NC: Information on 350 students’ tuition balances accidentally released in batch email
Sofia Edelman reports: Approximately 60 students woke up this morning to an email containing information on tuition balances for more than 350 students. The email came from the Office of the University Cashier just before 9 a.m. reminding students with due balances to pay in order to register for spring classes. Along with the students’…
Medical marijuana patients’ personal information found in trash pile
Fox10 reports: A medical marijuana dispensary is conducting an investigation into how sensitive patient information ended up in a pile of trash on a public sidewalk. The man who found the medical records believes this is a breach of patient privacy. The documents weren’t shredded and were laying out in the open. Somehow, trash from…