Manikanta Immanni reports: McDonald’s faced an indirect data breach where a hacker accessed sensitive information belonging to its clients in the Costa Rica branch. The company later said that a service provider it hired has left its client data exposed, which was reportedly accessed by the hacker. […] How the hacker was able to access…
Category: Exposure
MS Teams users at Army Futures Command potentially exposed private info
Jaspreet Gill reports: Users of the Microsoft Teams platform at Army Futures Command earlier this month potentially exposed personal and health identifying information to an unsecured number of department employees, and AFC is moving to prevent it from happening again, according to a memo obtained by Breaking Defense. Microsoft Teams — the most widely used…
Kr: Source Music Fined 3 Million Won By PIPC For Accidentally Leaking Fans’ Personal Information
Soompi reports: Source Music has been ordered to pay a fine of 3 million won (approximately $2,438) by South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC). Last year, after GFRIEND’s sudden disbandment, Source Music used a Google questionnaire in the process of refunding fan club membership fees. However, due to the questionnaire’s privacy settings being accidentally set to public,…
Home Office’s visa service apologises for email address data breach
Diane Taylor reports: The Home Office’s visa service has apologised for a data breach in which the email addresses of more than 170 people were mistakenly copied into an email circulated last week. More than 170 email addresses were accidentally copied into a message on 7 April 2022 about the change of location for a…
Ca: University Life Sciences students facing mass data breach Life Sciences students facing mass data breach
Asbah Ahmad reports: Confidential student information in the Life Sciences department was disseminated via email on Apr. 7. The information included student GPAs, student names, student numbers, academic plans, and years of study as of Sept. 2021. Students’ sexes and email addresses were also compromised. Read more at The Queens University Journal.
About 1,700 MetroHealth patients affected by data breach
Jordan Unger reports: The MetroHealth System confirmed Wednesday that about 1,700 patients were affected by an accidental data breach. According to MetroHealth, the issue occurred during an upgrade to their electronic medical record system on Nov. 13. When MetroHealth sent out records to some of their patients, the name, date of service and provider name of…