2019 BREACHES
Here we will share some of the businesses and organizations who fell victim or were reported so far this year.
Patient Records in Humboldt Broncos Fatal Crash Accessed Inappropriately
Who: The Saskatchewan Health Authority Medical Clinics How Many Records: 29 Date: February 12, 2019 What Happened: After Fatal Crash Athletes Electronic Health Records Accessed How did it happen: Sixteen people were killed and 13 were injured in the crash between the...
Security Breach to Popular PhotoSharing Site Exposes User Data
Who: 500px How Many Records: 14.8 Million Date: February 13, 2019 What Happened: Photo-sharing platform 500px has revealed that it suffered a security breach that exposed its users' data and profile information. How did it happen: While the company's engineers have...
Chinese Database of Company Providing Video-based crowd analysis and facial recognition Left Open
Who: SenseNets How Many Records: 2,565,724 users along with a stream of GPS coordinates Date: February 14, 2019 What Happened: SenseNets' MongoDB databases left exposed online without authentication How did it happen: One of the facial recognition databases that the...
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Ransomware Forces Aluminum Manufacturing Giant To Shut Down Network Worldwide
Ransomware Forces Aluminum Manufacturing Giant To Shut Down Network WorldwideHackers forced one of the largest producers of aluminum to shut down its network worldwide, switching to manual operations, and using only tablets and cellphones for their internal...
Massive Database Leak Gives Us A Window Into China’s Digital Surveillance State
Massive Database Leak Gives Us A Window Into China’s Digital Surveillance StateEarlier this month, security researcher Victor Gevers found and disclosed an exposed database live-tracking the locations of about 2.6 million residents of Xinjiang, China, offering a...
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Life Insurers Can Use Social Media Posts To Determine Premiums, As Long As They Don’t Discriminate
Life Insurers Can Use Social Media Posts To Determine Premiums, As Long As They Don't DiscriminateNew York’s Department of Financial Services (NYFS) has released new guidelines that will allow life insurance companies to use data from customers' social media posts to...
2 ‘Virtual Kidnap’ Scams Within 24 Hours Have Laguna Beach Police On Alert
2 ‘Virtual Kidnap’ Scams Within 24 Hours Have Laguna Beach Police On AlertTwo “virtual kidnap” cases within 24 hours in this seaside community have led police to alert all local schools. The incidents were similar: Phone calls were made to potential victims, with the...
Michael Cohen Investigation Involved Secretive “Triggerfish” Tracking Device
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‘DELETE FACEBOOK NOW’: WHATSAPP CO-FOUNDER ACCUSES MARK ZUCKERBERG OF TRADING PRIVACY FOR REVENUE AFTER ALLOWING ADS ON THE PLATFORM
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Iphone Crushes Androids On Resale Value
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Google Has Quietly Added Duckduckgo As A Search Engine Option For Chrome Users – Privacy
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