Anupama N reports: Vijayawada: The officials of Commissionerate of College Education, Andhra Pradesh, have put the privacy of thousands of students at risk by publishing their Aadhaar card details on the website. In a major goof up by the officials, details of 64,807 students have been put up on the website, for the viewing of…
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Delhi HC issues notice in Shamnad Basheer’s plea seeking damages for Aadhaar data leaks
Aditi Singh reports: The Delhi High Court today issued notice to Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and the Central government in a plea seeking damages for Aadhaar data leaks. The respondents were granted six weeks’ time to file their replies in the matter. A Division Bench of Justices S Ravindra Bhat and Anu Malhotra was hearing a…
Russian blogger uncovers a treasure trove of police records at an abandoned station in Moscow
Meduza reports: On August 16, blogger Lana Sator, a self-described “urbex [urban exploration] tourist” published photographs from an abandoned building on Bolshaya Cheremushkinskaya Street, which once housed a police station and office of the (now dissolved) Federal Migration Service. Sator says she crawled into the two-story building through an open window. The building was unguarded…
LA: Bossier City shuts downs online water bill payment system over possible data breach
Nikki Henderson reports: Some Bossier City water customers may have had their information compromised due to a possible breach of an online billing payment system. The City of Bossier maintains a system that allows customers to pay their water bills online using a credit/debit card. In the past few business days, a number of water…
Gujarat Aadhaar centre employees quizzed in data breach case
The Times of India reports: The Delhi police have recorded statements of employees of an Aadhaar centre, which is running from the Surat Collector’s office in Gujarat, in connection with the alleged Aadhaar data breach case, officials said on Thursday. Surat’s resident additional collector S D Vasava said that a Delhi police team visited the…
British and Canadian Governments Accidentally Exposed Passwords and Security Plans to the Entire Internet
Yael Grauer reports: By misconfiguring pages on Trello, a popular project management website, the governments of the United Kingdom and Canada exposed to the entire internet details of software bugs and security plans, as well as passwords for servers, official internet domains, conference calls, and an event-planning system. The U.K. government also exposed a small…