Three Lock Box is a construction escrow agency in Las Vegas. And while the name “lock box” might suggest security, unfortunately, they had a misconfigured MongoDB installation that exposed several million dollars in funds available in over 90 accounts. Chris Vickery uncovered the leaky database and contacted them immediately on December 24th because of concern that an attacker might be…
Category: Exposure
California might investigate massive leak of voter records
As I first reported in co-breaking the story about the massive leak of voter records that had been discovered by Chris Vickery, I called the California Attorney General’s Office to alert them to the leak of California voters’ information. The attorney I spoke with on December 21 told me she was immediately forwarding the information I provided, including the IP…
191 million voters’ personal info exposed by misconfigured database (UPDATE2)
– 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,…
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…