Overnight, I received a response from the INE with answers to some questions I had posed to them about a massive database leak of Mexican voter data. The leak had been discovered by MacKeeper researcher Chris Vickery. Let’s begin with the government’s press release: INTERPONE INE DENUNCIA POR USO INDEBIDO DE LA LISTA NOMINAL DE…
Category: Exposure
Toronto firm files statement of claim against province seeking $75 million over data leak
Is Canada getting more litigious on data breach lawsuits? Has anyone compiled any stats over the past five years? Vito Pilieci reports: A Toronto law firm has filed a statement of claim in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice as a placeholder for a possible $75 million class-action lawsuit against the province. The filing, which…
UK: MoD accidentally releases secret Nato military manual
Rob Edwards reports: The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has accidentally released a secret NATO report with codewords, ciphers, co-ordinates, radio frequencies and a host of other “special instructions” for huge war games under way around Scotland. An MoD official mistakenly circulated a manual for planned air operations during major military exercises involving more than a…
AU: CompTIA apologizes after email privacy blunder
Tony Yoo reports: Industry group CompTIA has apologised for exposing the contact details of at least a thousand Australian members this month. CRN has sighted from multiple sources mass emails sent on the morning of 11 April to CompTIA’s Australia mailing list that expose the email addresses of all the recipients. The sender, new CompTIA…
Personal info of 93.4 million Mexicans exposed on Amazon (UPDATED)
In today’s installment of “Epic Infosecurity #FAIL,” more than 93.4 million Mexican citizens have had their voter registration details exposed online due to a misconfigured database. Why a database with Mexican voters’ information was hosted on a server outside of Mexico, who uploaded it to Amazon, and why it wasn’t properly secured are questions in search of answers. Last week, MacKeeper…
Comelec website hacker arrested – NBI (Updated)
Jenny F. Manongdo reports: The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) announced the arrest of one of the three persons responsible for the hacking of the website of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) last month. After three weeks of collaborative surveillance efforts between the Comelec, NBI and other government agencies, the 23-year old fresh graduate of an…