[ad_1] According to Verogen, the company that recently purchased GEDmatch, no user data was downloaded or compromised. But two days later, the genealogy website MyHeritage alerted users to a phishing scheme that targeted people who used both MyHeritage and GEDmatch. In a statement posted online, the company said it suspects the attackers may have gleaned […]
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Analytics firm exposed data for 120 million households
[ad_1] Tetrad responded relatively quickly. UpGuard said it found and notified Tetrad of the exposure on February 3rd, and a back-and-forth led to the data being locked down on February 10th. It’s not certain whether anyone besides UpGuard or Tetrad accessed the data, however. The findings underscore one of the problems with collecting data on […]
Porn cam network leaked sensitive data for thousands of models
[ad_1] Data leaks by their nature subject people to some kind of unnecessary risk, but this latest could be genuinely dangerous. Researchers at vpnMentor have discovered that a porn cam affiliate network, PussyCash, left nearly 20GB of models’ extremely sensitive data exposed in an Amazon S3 bucket. The repository included not only 875,000 keys for […]
Over 267 million Facebook users reportedly had data exposed online
[ad_1] Dianchenko says he reported the database to the service provider managing the IP address of the server, but the database was exposed for nearly two weeks. In the meantime, he says, the data was posted as a download in a hacker forum. That’s a lot of personal data to be floating around in the […]
Millions of text messages were carelessly exposed by a marketing firm
[ad_1] The company locked down the database on November 29th, a day after vpnMentor got in touch. It’s not clear how long the database was left exposed, however, or whether there was any unauthorized access. We’ve asked TrueDialog for comment. The exposed messages aren’t going to include private conversations, but they still pose a risk. […]
Camgirl sites exposed data for millions of users
[ad_1] The database, which mostly included users from Europe, was locked down last week. It’s not clear if any intruders accessed the database. An email to VTS Media bounced, so the company’s stance on the issue isn’t clear. As with the database exposure at 3Fun’s dating service, the camgirl site exposure isn’t just a potential […]
32 million patient records were breached in the first half of 2019
[ad_1] The Protenus’ 2019 Mid-Year Breach Barometer Report found that 60 percent of all breaches were due to hacking, including the single largest breach. In that incident, hackers targeted a medical collections agency and obtained the data of roughly 20 million patients, including those who’d used LabCorp and Quest Diagnostics. Their data was found for […]
A public database exposed medical records of 150,000 rehab patients
[ad_1] Paine notified ElasticSearch, which contacted the owner of the database. The information is no longer publicly accessible, but in a blog post, Paine said to the best of his knowledge, Steps to Recovery has not reached out to the patients. While 150,000 people is a relatively small data leak by today’s standards, exposing health […]