– Personal, public, and some non-public information on 191 million registered voters exposed – Efforts to identify database’s owner to notify them unsuccessful – Database still exposed A misconfigured database leaking the personal information of over 191 million voters was reported to DataBreaches.net by researcher Chris Vickery. This report includes some of the results of an investigation by Vickery,…
Category: Exposure
MN: Constituents of City Council Member had their details tweeted by Council Member
Kate Raddatz reports: A Minneapolis City Council member is under fire for a series of tweets she posted online after attending the Black Lives Matter protest at the Mall of America this week. The tweets published personal information of constituents who criticized her involvement in the protest. Councilmember Alondra Cano, who represents Ward 9, tweeted out…
New Mexican dental patients’ records found dumped along West Mesa
KRQE reports: An Albuquerque man said he found hundreds of medical records dumped on the West Mesa. The medical records include people’s addresses, insurance information and social security numbers. The business responsible for them said it has no idea how the paperwork ended up there. Things at Cottonwood Comfort Dental in Albuquerque weren’t so comfortable on…
Anonymous Hacks Asia Pacific Telecommunity to Protest Against Censorship In Asia
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Members of the Anonymous hacker collective have defaced the Asia Pacific Telecommunity website (apt.int), gained access to the site’s admin panel (running Drupal), and also managed to get their hands on a database dump. Cyberguerilla.org reported the attack yesterday and provided screen shots and a link to the data that appears to contain information on…
In the spirit of Christmas giving, Steam gives your account details to others
It was around 3:30 this afternoon when I noticed people starting to complain about weirdness on Steam’s site. Attempts to connect to the site often resulted in a landing page in a different language (I didn’t even recognize the language I was seeing when I connected to the site), and if you logged into your…
OCR should fine entities that close and just dump patient records
Seriously. How many times will see news reports of how medical practices closed their doors and just dumped patient records? Here’s another case this week, reported by WSFA in Alabama, who made great efforts to track down someone – anyone – who might be able to help identify the culprit (and yes, I use the…