Sam Bocetta reports: The approach was simple, a combination email scam and social engineering phone call. All it took was a call to St. Ambrose Catholic Parish, claiming to be Marous Brothers Construction, a company working on a church renovation project for the past two months. But the phone call wasn’t from Marous Brothers Construction….
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The University of Chicago Medicine Exposed ‘Perspective Givers’ Database With More Than A Million of Records
Another Elasticsearch misconfiguration found by SecurityDiscovery. You can read about it here.
People Inc. reports data security breach involving clients’ personal info
Harold McNeil reports: People Inc. said it was the target of a data security breach that involved protected health information of some of its current and former clients. People Inc. learned that two employees’ email accounts were breached and their emails contained personal information about clients, including names, addresses, Social Security numbers, financial account information,…
After breach, Stack Overflow says some user data exposed
Zack Whittaker reports: After disclosing a breach earlier this week, Stack Overflow has confirmed some user data was accessed. In case you missed it, the developer knowledge sharing site confirmed Thursday a breach of its systems last weekend, resulting in unauthorized access to production systems — the front-facing servers that actively power the site. The…
Singapore Red Cross website hacked; more than 4,000 blood donors’ info compromised
Digital Journal reports: The Singapore Red Cross said Thursday its website had been hacked and the personal data of more than 4,000 potential blood donors compromised in the latest cyber attack on the city-state. Singapore, one of the world’s most digitally advanced countries, has been the target of multiple high-profile hacks in recent times, including…
SNP faces fines for data protection breach after election mailing error
Severin Carrell reports: The Scottish National Party faces being fined for a breach of data protection laws after sending out tens of thousands of European election mailings to the wrong addresses. The Information Commissioner’s Office confirmed on Friday morning that the SNP had referred itself for investigation after voters across Scotland received letters addressed to…