The Thompson Citizen reports: Personal information of up to 225 minors may have been on a laptop that was stolen from the Northern Regional Health Authority (NRHA) administration building in March. The theft of the laptop was discovered March 27. The computer contained client names, birth dates, genders, personal health information numbers (PHINs) and the…
First American Financial Corp. Leaked Hundreds of Millions of Title Insurance Records
Brian Krebs reports: The Web site for Fortune 500 real estate title insurance giant First American Financial Corp. [NYSE:FAF] leaked hundreds of millions of documents related to mortgage deals going back to 2003, until notified this week by KrebsOnSecurity. The digitized records — including bank account numbers and statements, mortgage and tax records, Social Security…
Australian tech unicorn Canva suffers security breach
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Canva, a Sydney-based startup that’s behind the eponymous graphic design service, was hacked earlier today, ZDNet has learned. Data for roughly 139 million users has been taken during the breach, according to the hacker, who tipped off ZDNet. Responsible for the breach is a hacker going online as GnosticPlayers. The hacker is…
Amadeus Traveler Data Exposed in a Thwarted Data Leak
Sean O’Neill reports: A computer expert discovered a vulnerability in one of the systems used by travel distribution company Amadeus, which said it had fixed the issue and that none of the data was misused. Alp, an Israel-based travel subsidiary, is an online service used by Israeli travel agents and governmental travel agency Inbal to…
Two former employees booked for stealing data from their former company
More rogue employees. This time, at Specality Polyfilm Pvt Ltd. Read more at: Times of India.
Google disables Baltimore’s Gmail accounts used during ransomware recovery over mistaken security concern
Ian Duncan reports on how your emergency backup might fail for reasons you didn’t anticipate, perhaps. Gmail accounts used by Baltimore officials as a workaround while the city recovers from a ransomware attack were disabled because the creation of a large number of new accounts in one place triggered Google’s automated security system, a spokesman…