There’s a follow-up to a lawsuit previously noted on this site. Jeff D. Gorman reports: An appeals panel properly revived claims against a plastic surgeon who shared a woman’s before-and-after photos with Fox News, Utah’s highest court ruled. When Dr. Renato Saltz performed breast augmentation and abdominoplasty on her in 2006, Conilyn Judge signed a…
Category: Exposure
TX: I-Team Investigation Revealed Massive Data Exposure In Dallas County That Went Unmitigated for Six More Months
CBS DFW sat on a data leak story since last year – trying to give Dallas County a chance to address the fact that court records freely available online contained tons of personal identity and sensitive information on residents and minor children. The station did not want to make criminals aware of the treasure trove of information,…
Anonymous hacks and leaks South African Dept of Water Affairs data
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Members of the World Hacker Team, one of Anonymous’ subdivisions, have breached South Africa’s Department of Water Affairs (DWA) as part of the group’s #OpAfrica and #OpMonsanto campaigns. #OpAfrica is an Anonymous social campaign launched to highlight the situation of child labor and government corruption in African countries. […] The leaked data…
Confidential records of Palm Beach County law enforcement officials and judges posted online
Jess Swanson reports: About 4,000 confidential records — the purported home addresses of police officers, lawyers, and judges — have been published on the website PBSOTalk.com, and the former owner of the website is blaming it on Russian computer hackers. Mark Dougan is a former Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office deputy. After leaving the force in 2008,…
Anonymous Leaks Details for 64,000 Tanzania Telecommunications Company Employees (UPDATE2)
Update1: TTCL is denying that they’ve had any breach. Update 2: Softpedia stands by its report that there was a breach, but has revised its estimate of the numbers. As one consequence, the headline for this post has been revised to delete the mention of 64,000. Original post: Catalin Cimpanu reports: Barely a day has passed since…
Des Moines administrator mistakenly publishes student scores
Jason Clayworth reports: The individual test scores of Des Moines elementary students identified as part of a behavioral needs presentation were posted on a personal website by a school administrator, a likely violation of federal law, a state official said Monday. The color-coded data are three years old and highlighted the names of Lovejoy Elementary…