Eric Katz reports: Millions of current and former federal employees could soon have a new company providing them with credit monitoring and identity theft protections, as the Office of Personnel Management plans to rebid a contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The current contract, which OPM signed with ID Experts in the wake of…
Urban Massage exposed a huge customer database, including sensitive comments on its creepy clients
Zack Whittaker reports: Urban Massage, a popular massage startup that bills itself as providing “wellness that comes to you,” has leaked its entire customer database. The London, U.K.-based startup — now known as just Urban— left its Google-hosted ElasticSearch database online without a password, allowing anyone to read hundreds of thousands of customer and staff…
NC: Wilmington city employees’ health insurance info exposed by email error by BCBS NC
Emily Featherston reports: Email is no stranger to being linked to cases of identity theft and data breaches. Most of the time, the thief sends a phishing message that coaxes information out of the victim or brings along viruses or malware. However, a single email led to the improper release of the information of 158…
About 2.65M patients at Charlotte’s Atrium Health hit with third-party data breach
Caroline Hudson reports: About 2.65 million patients of Charlotte-based Atrium Health were recently hit with a data breach in which unauthorized parties gained access to their information. Hackers attempted to lift patient information over a weeklong period from Sept. 22-29. The data was stored in a third-party system provided by AccuDoc Solutions Inc., which provides…
Private data of users of PratenOnline.nl stolen and held for ransom?
Damn. This is a breach involving highly sensitive data. I am publishing a Google translation of a report that appeared on Security.nl. If you can read Dutch, please go read the original report. I hope that Security.nl understands that I am using their content because this breach is so serious and I want my readers to…
UK’s ICO fines Uber £385,000 over data protection failings
The monetary penalties levied against ride-sharing giant Uber for covering up a 2016 breach continue to mount. From the ICO’s office: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined ride sharing company Uber £385,000 for failing to protect customers’ personal information during a cyber attack. A series of avoidable data security flaws allowed the personal details…