Data on 198M voters exposed by RNC contractor
It’s somewhat unbelievable how this keeps happening and Congress continues to sit on its hands when it comes to voter registration data. The Russians don’t need to hack anything. They just need to look...
View ArticleGOP data firm that exposed millions of Americans’ personal information is...
Natasha Bertrand reports: A data-analytics firm hired by the Republican National Committee last year to gather political information about US voters accidentally leaked the sensitive personal details...
View ArticleHundreds of Southern Illinois Healthcare Patients Potentially Impacted by...
Brad Palmer reports: Southern Illinois Healthcare is notifying more than 600 patients who might be impacted by a breach of their information. SIH Privacy Officer Marcia Matthias says it was an isolated...
View ArticleCannabis delivery startup Eaze confirms theft of some user data from service...
Jason Rowley reports: An anonymous source tipped off Crunchbase News that Eaze, the Series B-stage cannabis delivery startup with over $24 million in venture funding, has experienced a security...
View ArticleTrump Hotels notifies some guests of payment card breach that began in 2016
Trump Hotels is sending out data breach notification letters to hotel guests after a service provider notified them of a breach that began in August 2016 but was only detected this year. In their...
View ArticleMedical billing firm exposes unencrypted protected health information
Last month, DataBreaches.net was contacted by Kromtech Security’s research team and asked to assist it in alerting a medical billing firm that they were exposing patients’ personal and protected health...
View ArticleSome Erie County OCY cases part of statewide data breach
Kevin Flowers has more on a breach recently noted on this site: Officials with the Erie County Office of Children and Youth said that fewer than 30 Erie County children had their identities compromised...
View ArticleFormer MedAssist employee charged with trafficking stolen identities from...
WSFA reports: A woman whose job specialized in assisting medical patients has been charged with identity theft, according to the Dothan Police Department. Dothan Police say Malika Shanta Oliver, 40, is...
View ArticleHow A Verizon Partner Exposed 14 Million Customer Accounts
Dan O’Sullivan reports: UpGuard’s Cyber Risk Team can now report that a misconfigured cloud-based file repository exposed the names, addresses, account details, and account personal identification...
View ArticleIvinson Memorial Hospital notifies patients of FastHealth breach
Another FastHealth client is disclosing the vendor’s malware breach to its patients. Eve Newman reports: More than 500 Ivinson Memorial Hospital patients should receive notices in coming days that...
View ArticleDetroit Medical Center reports data breach affecting 1,500
The Detroit Medical Center announced a data breach of health information that involves about 1,500 patients seen at one of its facilities in 2015 and 2016. The health system announced today that a...
View ArticleHow about the truth, the WHOLE truth, and….. ?
So Harvest Bible Chapel d/b/a Walk in the Word Ministries notified donors of a vendor breach that they learned about on May 30, 2017. We determined that the unknown individual may have accessed payment...
View ArticleVeterans Administration responds to Freedom of Information request; releases...
So what did we miss because the Veterans Administration stopped posting their monthly breach reports to Congress on their web site? DataBreaches.net filed a Freedom of Information request on June 7,...
View ArticleVendor Breached Your Company Data? Sorry, You’re Still Liable
Rhys Dipshan writes: Call it the summer of vendor security mishaps. In June, a data firm hired by the Republican National Committee inadvertently exposed the personal information of almost 200 million...
View ArticleOver 5 million Social Security numbers exposed in Kansas breach: report
Morgan Chalfant reports: A breach of a Kansas Department of Commerce system exposed more than 5 million Social Security numbers to hackers, according to a report from a local news outlet. The Kansas...
View ArticleD.C. District Court Expands Government Contractors’ Exposure to Consumer Data...
Michael Breslin, Christian Henel, Jon Neiditz, and Gunjan Talati of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP write: The United States District Court for the District of Columbia recently endorsed private...
View ArticleWells Fargo Accidentally Releases Trove of Data on Wealthy Clients
Serge F. Kovaleski and Stacy Cowley report that external counsel for Wells Fargo Advisors appear to have over-responded to a discovery request by inadvertently including financial details on 50,000...
View ArticleHuge Swedish Data Leak Punished With (Only?) Half a Month’s Paycheck
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The Swedish government has exposed sensitive details on millions of citizens in one of the biggest government screw-ups ever, and the official responsible for the whole fiasco...
View ArticleUniCredit Says 400,000 Accounts Were Hacked, Exposing Data
Sonia Sirletti and Edward Robinson report: UniCredit SpA said hackers accessed about 400,000 client bank accounts in Italy, taking biographical and loan data in one of the biggest breaches in Europe to...
View Article2 ministers leave Swedish Cabinet in wake of security breach
The Associated Press reports: In a bid to avert a government crisis, Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven on Thursday reshuffled his minority Cabinet, replacing two members, after opposition parties...
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