Amy Renee Leiker reports a follow-up to a breach previously reported on this site: A December data breach that jeopardized the personal information of thousands of current and former Wichita State University students — some of whom attended the school decades ago — is now the subject of a federal lawsuit. Michael Bahnmaier of Wichita…
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…
Hacker, 22, who released personal data of German politicians charged
AFP reports the latest update in the case of the hacker formerly known as “@_Orbit” on Twitter. The man had reportedly confessed back in January 2019. German prosecutors said Tuesday they had brought charges against a 22-year-old hacker who released personal data of dozens of politicians, journalists and other public figures online, embarrassing national authorities….
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…
A massive database of 8 billion Thai internet records leaks
Zack Whittaker reports: Thailand’s largest cell network AIS has pulled a database offline that was spilling billions of real-time internet records on millions of Thai internet users. Security researcher Justin Paine said in a blog post that he found the database, containing DNS queries and Netflow data, on the internet without a password. With access to this…