Category: data exposure

Microsoft accidently exposed 250 million customer service records

[ad_1] Security researcher Bob Diachenko and Comparitech discovered the vulnerability on December 29th. Microsoft quickly fixed the issue two days later. It says the exposure was caused by a “misconfiguration” of one of its internal customer support databases. The company claims it found no evidence of “malicious use.” The server included conversation logs dating as […]

752,000 US birth certificate applications were exposed online

[ad_1] The applications include information like the applicant’s name, their date of birth, current home address, email and phone number. Additionally, they included other details about people’s lives, such as their previous address, the names of their family members and the reason they applied to get the documents in the first place. The cache includes […]