On August 6, Waqas reported that a Chinese adult site platform had leaked more than 14 million user accounts with more than 24 GB of files. The server was reportedly updating itself with new information every second. Hjedd, an infamous Chinese adult content and NSFW platform has been exposing a treasure trove of user data…
Category: Exposure
WestJet app data breach reveals other people’s personal information
Stephen Hunt reports: WestJet says it’s investigating a technical glitch on its app that allowed users to see other people’s profiles. CTV News first learned of the issue Wednesday afternoon from a viewer and a Twitter post that indicated that once you logged on to the airline’s app, you could see the personal information of…
Ca: St. Joe’s contacting 230 patients whose health records were faxed to wrong people
Sebastian Bron reports: About 230 patients at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton had their health records recently faxed to the wrong person in what the hospital attributed to an “error.” St. Joe’s said in a release Friday that the misdirected faxes — which occurred between 2020 and 2021 — came to light after a comprehensive review…
No Injury = No Article III Standing in Data Breach Class Action
Amy Brown Doolittle of Squire Patton Boggs writes: As we have discussed here at CPW, one of the biggest challenges facing a plaintiff in a data breach class action is to establish an injury from the alleged data breach. Earlier this week, in David De Midicis v. Ally Bank & Ally Fin., Inc., 2022 U.S. Dist. LEXIS…
City of Detroit retirees data breach causes concern
Randy Wimbley and David Komer report: …. It’s what Weldon. a Detroit retiree, stumbled upon Wednesday morning after setting up her account on the City of Detroit retirement system’s new online program. “I saw several links called lists, and I clicked on one – and it was my name and this first list was eight…
Top secret documents scattered in street after careless disposal by German Chancellor Scholz
Emma Crabtree reports: The Chancellor’s bin bags were placed outside his private apartment and torn open by foxes, leaving the documents open in public. Multiple news sources have since criticised the German leader for using such a careless disposal method. Read more at Express. The documents were unshredded and just bagged and binned, it seems.