When security researcher Chris Vickery was unable to get sports trading card giant Topps to respond to his notification that a database was exposing mobile apps fans’ information, DataBreaches.net stepped up to the plate. The exposed database was not the first time MacKeeper security researcher Chris Vickery had seen Topps mobile app fan data leaking….
Category: Exposure
Hack exposes 1,500 University of Cambridge student and employee passwords
Patrick Howell O’Neill reports: Hackers successfully hit the University of Cambridge’s Cambridge Schools Classics Project website this week, exposing the email addresses and cleartext passwords of over 1,500 students and employees. The contents of the breach were released freely online earlier this week. On Thursday, a University of Cambridge spokesperson confirmed the incident to the Daily Dot….
Ca: Personal information in 100,000 IT requests compromised in Simon Fraser University database misconfiguration
Corneilia Naylor reports that Simon Fraser University has self-disclosed that they left a lot of personal information on an unsecured database. Good for them for discovering it and disclosing it, although of course we wish it had never happened or had been discovered sooner. On Jan. 27, 2016, SFU IT services inadvertently copied incidents, inquiries and…
UK: Confidential records of mentally ill patients found in cabinet bought on eBay
Another totally inexcusable and shameful privacy breach. Personal documents containing confidential details of mentally ill patients of the former Wolverhampton NHS Primary Care Trust were found in a filing cabinet bought on eBay. The cabinet contained 60 pages of documents including details of patients’ history of sexual abuse and suicide attempts. Read more on Express &…
NYS: Inadvertent release to adoptee of birth mother’s identity leads to reforms
Another “small” privacy breach with big impact. In this case, the big impact was an overhaul of the state’s system. From their press release: New York State Inspector General Catherine Leahy Scott yesterday released a report of an investigation that found the State Department of Health’s (“DOH”) complex and antiquated storage of vital records led to…
Information on 154 million voters exposed in the cloud – again. (Updated)
MacKeeper Security Researcher Chris Vickery has found yet another misconfigured database with U.S. voter information and profiles. This one has 154 million records. See my report about it over on the Daily Dot. One day maybe our government or state attorneys general will start actually enforcing some data security on those who create these massive…