Bob Diachenko writes: On May 23rd, another Elasticsearch misconfiguration incident has led to the exposure of the personal details and Aadhar number for millions of families registered under Mukhya Mantri Parivar Samridhi Yojana (MMPSY), which is one of the largest social security programme in India rolled out in the state of Haryana. According to Bob, the server…
Category: Government Sector
Class-action lawsuit filed against state contractor over Ohio Department of Job and Family Services data leak
No surprise here…. ABC6 in Ohio reports: A class-action lawsuit has been filed in the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas, alleging Deloitte—the contractor the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) hired to create and manage the new Pandemic Unemployment Assistance system—acted “negligently and recklessly,” leading to last week’s data leak. Read more on…
Hackers Expose Gaping Holes in North Macedonia’s IT Systems
Bojan Stojkovski reports: North Macedonia’s officials are trying to persuade the country that after hackers recently leaked dozens of email addresses and passwords from staffers in public institutions, the situation is under control. But, as they did so, some of the key pages of Skopje’s main local government’s website could not be reached since Thursday – in…
Identities of Northern Ireland abuse survivors exposed in email gaffe
The breach described in the post is already one of the worst breaches of 2020 in my opinion. It’s 2020 and yet we are still seeing privacy breaches involving very sensitive data due to an email gaffe. From media coverage, it is likely that a newsletter that was sent out put recipients’ email addresses in…
Trump’s Press Secretary Appears to Have Exposed President’s Banking Information
Daniel Politi reports: During a briefing on Friday, Donald Trump’s press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, wanted to tell a feel-good story of where the president had decided to donate his salary this quarter. So she held up the $100,000 check that she said Trump would donate to the Department of Health and Human Services to “support…
Florida joins ranks of states with unemployment application portal data security issues
And then there were 5. I’ve previously noted that four states have reported data security problems with their state portals for pandemic-related unemployment insurance: Arkansas, Illinois, Ohio, and Coloradans. Today, I see that Florida has joined the ranks of those that were alerted to data security issues. The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity hasn’t said…