SEK 12 million in penalty fees against the company Medhelp, half a million against the Stockholm Region and SEK 250,000 against each against Sörmland and Värmland. This is the outcome of the review made by the Privacy Protection Authority in the case of the millions of 1177 calls that were left unprotected on the internet….
Category: Exposure
Wegmans Notifies Customers Of Database Security Breach
Amy Hogan reports: Wegmans is notifying its customers of a security breach of a database that stores customer information. A statement posted to the grocery chain’s website explains that the cloud database was meant for internal use only, but, due to a “configuration problem,” was left open to potential outside access. Read more on Fox40.
Alibaba Falls Victim to Chinese Web Crawler in Large Data Leak
Yang Jie and Liza Lin report: A Chinese software developer trawled Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. ’s popular Taobao shopping website for eight months, clandestinely collecting more than 1.1 billion pieces of user information before Alibaba noticed the scraping, a Chinese court verdict said. The software developer began using web-crawling software he designed on Taobao’s site starting in November…
Thai government apologises for data leak, blames “temporary glitch
Jack Arthur reports: The Thai government has released a statement apologising for the data leak on Monday which saw people who registered for a Covid vaccine have their personal information revealed. The government says there was a “temporary glitch” on the thailandintervac.com vaccination booking website and the error was because of “urgent system maintenance”. Read…
Impacts of Department of Health data breach remain unknown
CJ Baker reports: The Wyoming Department of Health knows it accidentally published the personal information of 164,000 residents on a public website earlier this year. But it remains a mystery as to whether any bad actors accessed the data before the department discovered the mistake and took the files offline. The roughly 54 files that…
Volkswagen says a vendor’s security lapse exposed 3.3 million drivers’ details
Zack Whittaker reports: Volkswagen says more than 3.3 million customers had their information exposed after one of its vendors left a cache of customer data unsecured on the internet. The car maker said in a letter that the vendor, used by Volkswagen, its subsidiary Audi and authorized dealers in the U.S. and Canada, left the customer data…