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Kaiser health insurance leaked patient data to advertisers

April 29, 2024 0 Comments data leak, health insurance, kaiser, news, personal, Privacy, tracking pixels

Health insurance giant Kaiser has announced it will notify millions of patients that it shared their data with advertisers.

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Google Virus Total leaks list of spooky email addresses

July 18, 2023 0 Comments data leak, Google, Microsoft, virus total, VT

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2023 23:16:29 +0000

Careful with that file, Eugene!

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WordPress backup plugin maker Updraft says “You should update”…

February 22, 2022 0 Comments cve-2022-23303, data leak, updraft, vulnerability, Wordpress

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2022 17:26:37 +0000

A straight-talking bug report written in plain English by an actual expert – there’s a teachable moment in this cybersecurity story!

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Slickwraps data breach earns scorn for all

February 27, 2020 0 Comments breach, data breach, data hack, data leak, data loss, exposed data, Hacker, lynx0x00, Privacy, security threats, slickwraps, vinyl skins, vulnerability

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 14:47:39 +0000

The breach earned derision from both the hacker and observers after another hacker exploited the company’s vulnerable setup.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/MqNwwvLAhW0″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Private photos leaked by PhotoSquared’s unsecured cloud storage

February 19, 2020 0 Comments amazon s3, amazon simple storage service (s3) bucket, Amazon web services, amazon web services (aws) storage bucket, Android, AWS, breach, CCPA, Cloud, cloud storage, credit card fraud, data breach, data leak, data loss, exposed database, financial fraud, identity theft, iOS, leak, Mobile, personally identifiable information, phishing, photo apps, photosquared, PII, port scanning, Privacy, s3 database, security threats, vpnMentor, web mapping

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 11:49:20 +0000

With no password required and no encryption in place, a burglar or ID thief could have seen your photos, your address and more.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/v6L-VwD68-Y” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Sensitive plastic surgery images exposed online

February 18, 2020 0 Comments amazon, Amazon web services, AWS, aws bucket, Cloud Security, cloud storage, data leak, data loss, data protection, exposed data, medical data, medical images, next motion, online privacy, personally identifiable information, PII, plastic surgery, Privacy, security threats, vpnMentor

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 11:04:56 +0000

Researchers at VPN advisory company vpnMentor have found yet another online data exposure caused by a misconfigured cloud database.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/3bHx9OL42rQ” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Data about inmates and jail staff spilled by leaky prison app

February 12, 2020 0 Comments amazon, amazon s3, amazon simple storage service (s3) bucket, Cloud, cloud storage, correctional facility, correctional risk services, crs technologies, Cryptography, data breach, data leak, data loss, exposed database, google cloud, inmates, jailcore, jailhouse, Law & order, PII, port scanning, prescriptions, prison, prisoners, Privacy, privacy policy, s3 bucket, security threats, sha-256, ssl certification, terms of service, tos, vpnMentor, web mapping

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 10:16:24 +0000

A web-mapping project came across detainees’ prescriptions and other PII that could be used by identity thieves to victimize prisoners.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/ypFJWLIWMOE” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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What do online file sharers want with 70,000 Tinder images?

January 21, 2020 0 Comments data leak, data loss, dating apps, deepfakes, online dating, online privacy, Privacy, Social networks, tinder

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 10:50:32 +0000

A researcher has discovered thousands of Tinder users’ images publicly available for free online.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/HtlXzKkoA5E” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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FBI seizes credentials-for-sale site WeLeakInfo.com

January 20, 2020 0 Comments credentials-for-sale, data breach, data leak, data loss, FBI, Law & order, netherlands, northern ireland, security threats, stolen credentials, stolen data, uk, US, weleakinfo.com

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 12:21:18 +0000

The FBI has seized the domain for WeLeakInfo.com, a site that sold breached data records, after a multinational effort by law enforcement.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/XbN7y20SIRI” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Celebrity addresses posted online in New Year’s Honours List leak

December 30, 2019 0 Comments data leak, Privacy

Credit to Author: Naked Security writer| Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 17:29:39 +0000

Too much information.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/El1zwtrv6lk” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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