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…
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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…
Hacker leaks over 260 internal Democratic Party files on Hillary Clinton
From the I-doubt-this-will-help-her-campaign dept., Jason Murdock reports: The hacker responsible for breaching the computer networks of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) has released a fresh trove of 261 internal files, donor lists and memos – largely focused on presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. The data dump, leaked by a hacker dubbed “Guccifer 2.0”, consists of a…
Ca: 77K accounts of Financial Giant, State Farm, leaked due to DAC Group Hack
Ryan de Souza reports: DAC Group, a Toronto-based digital & content marketing agency has suffered a security breach on their server resulting in data theft of 93,000 customer accounts — In normal circumstances it would be just another security breach but what makes this breach exceptional is the 77,000 leaked accounts from Bloomington, Illinois-based State Farm,…
Quebec Liberals’ strategy meetings were leaking…
Yet another security incident linked to failure to change default passwords. CJAD in Canada reports that the Quebec Liberals’ failure to change the default password on their videoconferencing system allowed anyone to gain access to strategy meetings. The user who found the flaw showed off the unlimited access to the Journal de Montreal. Published screenshots show archived videos…
BesaMafia hitman site hacked again
Remember when BesaMafia, a dark web site where people can allegedly hire hitmen was hacked and data was dumped in May? What could be worse, right? Well, they could be hacked again and their data dumped again. The hacker known as “bRpsd” has again embarrassed the site, which claims to be linked to the Albanian Mafia, by…