Alex Kennedy reports: The personal information of about 15,000 students at Memorial University was accidentally shared with other students in an inadvertent data breach, the university said Friday. The breach happened on Thursday as part of an email campaign from the school’s career development email. About 1,000 students received emails that contained other students’ personal information, according to a…
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Patient Radiology Files Accidentally Exposed Online by Yale New Haven Hospital
Yale New Haven Health in Connecticut has issued a statement concerning an error that exposed some patients’ files to the public between December 16, 2021 and April 18, 2022: New Haven, CT (June 17, 2022) –Yale New Haven Hospital (YNHH) today announced that a file created for research was unintentionally posted on a public facing…
Malaysian POS provider StoreHub almost exposed one million customers in data leak
Aaron Raj reports: Another day, another data leak report in Malaysia. Data leaks and breaches are becoming so rampant in Malaysia that there is news about them almost every week in the local media. Now, almost a million customers have had their data leaked in what may be an industry-impacting incident. According to a report by…
India’s farmers exposed by new Aadhaar data leak
Zack Whittaker reports: A security researcher said an Indian government website was exposing the Aadhaar numbers of India’s farmers, potentially amounting to millions of people. Atul Nair told TechCrunch that he found a part of Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi website that was revealing the farmers’ information. PM-Kisan, as the agency is better known, is an…
Choice Health Insurance notifying people after vendor error resulted in a data breach
On June 8, Choice Health Insurance began notifying people of a data breach caused by human error. According to their notification to the California Attorney General’s Office, they learned on May 14 that an unauthorized person was “offering to make available data allegedly taken from Choice Health.” In actuality, on May 9, the data had…
Leaking Student Data From US Campus App Found — But is It Real?
Another day, another leak. Another leak, another entity claiming it’s not real data. Another leak, another frustrating experience trying to responsibly disclose. According to Safety Detectives, they found exposed data related to an app called Transact Campus: Transact Campus’ technology integrates several payment functions into a single mobile platform to power student purchases at higher…