Maggie Prosser reports: Hundreds of thousands of public health records, including COVID-19 vaccination details, were exposed in a data breach that was linked to an app that is used at Denton County vaccine clinics, officials say. A malfunction in the third-party software revealed contact and identifying information, as well as COVID-19 vaccination types and appointment…
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Indonesia probes suspected data breach on COVID-19 app
Reuters reports: Indonesia is investigating a suspected security flaw in a COVID-19 test-and-trace app that left exposed personal information and the health status of 1.3 million people, a health ministry official said on Tuesday. Researchers from encryption provider (sic) vpnMentor said personal information in the Indonesia Health Alert Card (eHAC) app, often required to be used…
Less than two months after its launch and inaugural hack, GETTR is leaking data
GETTR, a social media platform similar to Twitter but frequented by people who don’t feel welcome on Twitter, officially launched on July 4th, 2021. It may be hard to remember what came first — the official launch of the platform run by former President Trump’s ex-spokesman Jason Miller or its first data breach, which was…
FBI Palantir glitch allowed unauthorized access to private data
Ben Feuerherd reports: A computer glitch in a secretive software program used by the FBI allowed some unauthorized employees to access private data for more than a year, prosecutors revealed in a new court filing. The screw-up in the Palantir program — a software created by a sprawling data analytics company co-founded by billionaire Peter…
NL: Data leak at Radboudumc hospital was caused by former employee
This is a Google translation of a story in Dutch: The data breach at Radboudumc in Nijmegen is due to a former employee, the hospital reports in an update . Due to the leak, the data of an unknown number of employees is on the street. The hospital discovered the data breach earlier this month. Names, login names, email addresses and…
Internal emails raise questions about government’s investigation into Walgreens privacy breach
I am so glad to see a follow-up on this case because I had the same questions about how and why Walgreens did not suffer the same federal penalties as CVS and Rite Aid for the same infringement of HIPAA. My original coverage of this breach is no longer online as the former version of…