Apps that collect and store health-related information are often not covered by HIPAA, but a breach involving the data they collect could be problematic. Today, I report on two leaking apps containing health information. Both of these leaks were reported to DataBreaches.net by researcher Chris Vickery. Part 1, below, is on iFit’s data leak. Part 2 will report on…
Category: Exposure
ISIS hackers leaks military information in response to Anonymous ‘ISIS trolling day’
Kavita Iyer reports: In response to the “ISIS day of trolling”, the ISIS-affiliated Islamic Cyber Army (ICA) have reportedly released the personal information of some 160 U.S. military personnel. The personal information released included full names, addresses, phone numbers, and emails of numerous high-ranking U.S. and French military officials. It came on a day that…
Anonymous Hacks European Space Agency Domains
Waqas writes: The online hacktivist Anonymous has breached the subdomains of the European Space Agency website and leaked personal and login credentials of thousands of subscribers and officials — The reason for targeting the agency? Well, ”We did it for the Lulz” says Anonymous. […] he data has been divided into three files which include site’s database, full…
NZ: Data breaches at Television New Zealand
Russell Blackstock reports: TVNZ has revealed two data security breaches over the past year, including the payment of a “fraudulent invoice” and the distribution of “commercially sensitive data” to external media agencies. The state broadcaster detailed the incidents in written answers to Parliament’s Commerce Committee. “An email phishing attack on a supplier resulted in a…
Personal and sensitive data of 59,000 charter school students in California leaked: researcher
California Virtual Academies (CAVA) is a network of 11 publicly funded charter k-12 schools in California. Researcher Chris Vickery recently contacted DataBreaches.net after he found a database with 58,694 of their students’ records leaking. In addition to a lot of personal information on the students that was all in plain text, the leaking data included some information on student…
CardCrypt: 16 Companies Exposed Customers Unencrypted Credit Card Data
Jett Goldsmith writes: A security vulnerability affecting 16 companies worldwide, including Air Canada, the CN Tower, and the San Diego Zoo, has potentially revealed the unencrypted credit card data of hundreds of thousands of customers, according to a report by threat detection firm Wandera. Read more on Neowin. Over on Wandera’s blog, they write: Today, Wandera announced…