DataBreaches.net is not alone in being outraged that in response to a massive data leak that put the information of 87 million Mexican voters at risk, Movimiento Ciudadano appears to be falsely claiming that the voter data list they stored on Amazon cloud was “hacked.” The political party has been repeating that false claim on Twitter and in…
Category: Exposure
American Samoa Domain Registry Was Exposing Client Data Since the mid-1990s
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A British security researcher that goes online only by the name of InfoSec Guy revealed today that American Samoa domain registry ASNIC was using an outdated domain name management system that contained a bug allowing anyone to view the personal details of any .as domain owner. The researcher also claims that anyone…
Movimiento Ciudadano admits it was their copy of the Mexican voter list on AWS, tries to deflect blame to researcher
A reader kindly informed me that Movimiento Ciudadano, one of the political parties that had legitimate access to Mexico’s voter data list, has admitted it was responsible for the leak on Amazon. Except that as I read more, I realized they weren’t really admitting they were responsible for the leak. I’ve been trying to read/translate a number…
PH: BIR probes employees for leaking sensitive data
Ben O. de Vera reports: The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) is looking into an alleged leak of confidential information obtained from tax tipsters. In Revenue Memorandum Circular No. 50-2016 issued last April 22, BIR Commissioner Kim S. Jacinto-Henares said the leak was allegedly perpetrated by the bureau’s own officers and employees. Henares said the…
GoldCorp hacked, data dumped
Yesterday I was contacted by hackers who claimed that GoldCorp, a gold-mining firm with headquarters in Vancouver, British Columbia (TSX:G NYSE: GG), had been “badly hacked” and its data dumped. I’ve written up the details we’ve found so far, and you can read all about it on The Daily Dot, where I’ll be contributing occasionally. And if you’re the hacker(s) who…
Demand letter served on poll body over disastrous ‘Comeleak’ breach
There continues to be a lot of media coverage of the COMELEC breach in the Philippines. Here’s an interesting response. Carlos Nazareno reports: The Center for International Law Philippines (Centerlaw), a human rights legal group, delivered on Monday, April 25, a demand letter to the Commission on Elections (Comelec) over its possible failure to reasonably protect the…