Caiwai Chen reports: Rumors have spread after Wei Xingguo (Yun Shu), CTO of Chinese Internet security company Moresec and former chief of Alibaba’s Security Research Lab posted on Weibo that millions of Weibo users’ data had been leaked on March 19. Wei claimed that his own phone number was leaked through Weibo and had received…
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UK: Nursing home probed after residents’ personal details are found in the street
John Pring reports: A nursing home is facing an investigation into a “very serious” breach of data protection laws, after detailed personal information about its 36 disabled residents was apparently found in the street. The four-page document contains the names of all 36 residents of Manor Hall, in Eastbourne, as well as their health conditions,…
[CORRECTED] A UK-based Security Company Seemed To Have Inadvertently Exposed Its ‘Leaks Database’ with 5B+ Records
UPDATE and CORRECTION: DataBreaches.net received an email from a firm who claimed that a report by Bob Diachenko, whose research report had been quoted on DataBreaches.net, had incorrectly claimed that they had had a data breach. Diachenko has revised his report. In light of the correction, DataBreaches.net is deleting the excerpt from Bob’s report that originally…
Rogers notifies customers their personal information may have been compromised
Aisha Malik reports: Rogers has notified customers that their personal information may have been compromised in a data breach. “On February 26, 2020, Rogers became aware that one of our external service providers had inadvertently made information available online that provided access to a database managed by that service provider,” Rogers wrote on its support…
UK: Covid-19 response forces halt to NHS cyber security checks
Nick Carding reports from the between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place dept.: Security checks to keep the NHS safe from hackers have been delayed to help managers deal with covid-19. The service has also been warrned of attempts to exploit the pandemic by online fraudsters. The six-month delay means NHS trusts do not need to complete a cybersecurity checklist until…
Montenegrin Coronavirus Patients’ Identities Exposed Online
Samir Kajosevic reports: After Montenegrin Prime Minister Dusko Markovic announced on Tuesday evening that the country had its first two coronavirus cases, the patients’ identities were published by social media users. Photos of one of the patients and her family were also posted online. The ethnicities and religious beliefs of the patients were then targeted…