UK: Confidential documents were blown into gardens in data breach
Adam Shaw reports: A North London council has suspended its bin collection provider from handling sensitive material after letters containing residents’ personal information were blown into gardens and...
View ArticleNetwork cavity blamed for data breach at Japanese candy maker Morinaga
John Leyden reports: Japanese confectionary manufacturer Morinaga has warned that a suspected data breach of its online store may have exposed the personal information of more than 1.6 million...
View ArticlePh: Smartmatic admits ‘data leak’ but not related to 2022 polls
Third Anne Peralta-Malonzo reports the latest into the investigation into claims of a Comelec leak. SMARTMATIC Inc., the country’s major provider for the upcoming 2022 automated elections, has admitted...
View ArticleFederal Court Dismisses Data Breach Litigation
The following news item refers to litigation related to a data leak discovered by Dutch researcher Jelle Ursem that was reported in collaboration with DataBreaches.net. Shing Tse and Kristin L. Bryan...
View ArticlePh: NBI raids house of ex-Smartmatic employee tagged in ‘data breach’
There is yet another update in the investigation into a security breach involving the Philippine Commission on Elections (Comelec) vendor Smartmatic. As of April 1, Smartmatic had acknowledged a data...
View ArticleCa: Arnprior Regional Health determines Arnprior and District Family Health...
The following is a somewhat confusing, and seemingly self-contradicting press release. DataBreaches.net has sent an email inquiry to ADFHT seeking clarification of what they mean by saying that...
View ArticleSunwing president apologizes to stranded passengers, says outage result of...
Joshua Freeman reports that a Canadian airline’s flights were disrupted after an attack on the firm that provides its check-in system: “Obviously, this is a terrible situation and one that we didn’t...
View ArticleKaiser Wins Trademark Injunction Against Patient Data Company
Isaiah Poritz reports: Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc. won a preliminary injunction in California federal court against medical records company SureFile Filing Systems for attempting to sell patient...
View ArticleIlluminate Education breach that affected NYC schools spreads to other districts
Benjamin Freed reports: A school district in Coventry, Connecticut, notified families of its students this week that students’ data may have been swept up in a breach of one of its vendors earlier...
View ArticleMailpac customers affected by Aeropost data breach
Olivia Brown reports: Courier company Mailpac Group Limited, and Florida, United States-based logistics management and package delivery company, Aeropost, have come under fire over an email informing...
View ArticleCurrent, former Lakota Local Schools students possibly impacted by...
Jared Goffinet reports on a third-party breach affecting some Ohio schools: A ransomware attack of a third-party data company may impact some current and former Lakota Local Schools students. Battelle...
View ArticleAnother school district notifies parent of Illuminate breach
Natalie Chuck reports that another district in Colorado has sent letters to parents about the breach at Illuminate Education that impacted more than 820,000 students in New York City as well as 24...
View ArticleCyber attack prompts security response by Oregon secretary of state
KTVZ reports: A ransomware attack on a campaign finance firm has prompted the Oregon Elections Division to require that 1,100 users of the state’s online campaign contribution reporting system change...
View ArticleOmnicell reveals ransomware incident in SEC filing
From their May 9 10-Q filing: Our IT systems and third-party cloud services are potentially vulnerable to cyber-attacks, including ransomware, or other data security incidents, by employees or others,...
View ArticleCyberattack at Opus Interactive knocks Ruby Receptionists offline, disrupting...
Mike Rogoway reports: Ruby Receptionists, the Portland company that serves as a phone receptionist for thousands of small businesses, has suffered a major outage that knocked it offline all week. One...
View Article2022 DSIR Deeper Dive: Vendor Incidents
Stefanie Ferrari of BakerHostetler writes: Vendor-caused incidents continued to surge in 2021. Nearly 20 percent of the total incidents we handled last year were caused by vendors, with more than half...
View ArticleBattelle for Kids ransomware attack compromised records of 560,000 Chicago...
Nader Issa and Lauren FitzPatrick report: A massive data breach has exposed four years’ worth of records of almost 500,000 Chicago Public Schools students and nearly 60,000 employees, district...
View ArticleIlluminate Education Breach Included Los Angeles Unified & Riverside County...
Hats off to Kristal Kuykendall and THE Journal for tracking the Illuminate Education breach. Kykendall reports: The breach of student data that occurred during a January 2022 cyberattack targeting...
View ArticleAU: NDIS case management system provider breached
Justin Hendry reports: A security breach of a cloud-based client management system used by National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) service providers has exposed a “large volume” of health and other...
View ArticleLeaking Student Data From US Campus App Found — But is It Real?
Another day, another leak. Another leak, another entity claiming it’s not real data. Another leak, another frustrating experience trying to responsibly disclose. According to Safety Detectives, they...
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