On May 6, 2016, Planned Parenthood of the Heartland discovered a potential breach of patients’ personal health information. Hard copy patient records from August 1, 2008 – April 30, 2014 may have been accessed by unauthorized parties during the April 2016 closure and subsequent sale of our Dubuque health care center. This potential breach is…
Category: Exposure
Order of Malta breach contains unhashed gov’t credentials
Jeremy Seth Davis reports: A white hat researcher discovered a pair of data breaches in which email and password credentials of government employees were dumped on Pastebin. Hackers dumped almost 4,000 credentials gained during two separate breaches that contained credentials linked to U.S. and Ukrainian government employees. The attackers breached a website affiliated with the…
AU: TeleChoice forced to compensate customers over 2014 data breach
Sometimes by the time a case is resolved, I’ve forgotten what it was. I’m old, I forget. Thankfully, I can check the archives of this site to see if I had covered it before. Happily for me, I had covered this one, which involved TeleChoice somewhat stunningly leaving consumers’ personal information in a shipping container…
Euro 2016 app leaking private user data
Sam Pudwell reports: I’ve been trying not to think about Euro 2016 after England’s whimpering exit on Monday night, but new research from mobile security and management firm Wandera has grabbed my attention. According to analysis of data traffic patterns from enterprise mobile devices, the official UEFA Euro 2016 Fan Guide App is leaking user’s personal information…
Dubious list of dubious figures leaked online
Max Metzger reports: A list of suspected criminals has been leaked online. The list was leaked from a Thomson-Reuters due diligence service, World-Check. which profiles individuals and businesses suspected of ties to organised crime and terrorism. The leaked database contains 2.2 million records from an old list, dated back to mid-2014. Read more on SC…
Massachusetts General Hospital Dental Group notifies patients of Patterson FTP server incident
Back in February, this site reported that a Patterson Dental anonymous FTP server was leaking patient data, according to a security researcher who had discovered the problem and reported it to them and then this site. One of the entities, the Massachusetts General Hospital Dental Group, had patient data caught up in that leak, and…