Charlie Osborne reports: UniCredit has revealed a data breach resulting in the leak of information belonging to three million customers. On Monday, the Italian bank and financial services organization said that a compromised file, generated in 2015, is the source of the security incident. In total, roughly three million records were exposed, revealing the names, telephone…
Open wide and say, “Ugh, My Data!!!!!”
This is the story of how mapping and analysis of an open elastic search led to the discovery of a misconfigured Amazon s3 bucket that exposed data from hundreds of thousands of dental patients. If you live in Brazil, you may already be experiencing breach fatigue from having had so much of your personal and…
Ca: Dozens of patient records stolen from Winnipeg’s Children’s Hospital
CBC reports: The personal health information of 54 minors was stolen this week from a locked cabinet at the Children’s Hospital in Winnipeg, the province’s Shared Health agency said in a Friday news release. The stolen records relate to two days’ worth of scheduled surgical procedures for youths from Manitoba, Ontario and Nunavut. Read more on…
Irish beauty chain probes ‘possible patient data breach’
John Reynolds reports: THÉRAPIE Clinic, a chain of beauty treatment outlets, is investigating a possible data breach involving patient records. It is believed that patient information that may have included medical records had been accessed or taken without permission by a former employee. Read more on Independent.ie. I was initially surprised that the clinics’ records…
CenturyLinks’ suffers data leak due to vendor error
Tim Sandle reports: CenturyLink has reported that a customer information database of 2.8 million records was found exposed. The database was affiliated with a third-party notification platform and has been exposed for 10 months. With the CenturyLink issue, the personal information of hundreds of thousands on CenturyLink customers, including name, addresses, email addresses, and phone…
Southeast Missouri State University email gaffe breaches privacy
Zach Tate reports in the student newspaper of Southeast Missouri State University: On Oct. 4, an email including information from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences leaked private information about students, faculty and staff members to approximately 50 Southeast communication students. The email was sent with personally identifiable information (PII) to the communication students…