February 19, 2020

Private photos leaked by PhotoSquared’s unsecured cloud storage

With no password required and no encryption in place, a burglar or ID thief could have seen your photos, your address and more.

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February 18, 2020

Sensitive plastic surgery images exposed online

Researchers at VPN advisory company vpnMentor have found yet another online data exposure caused by a misconfigured cloud database.

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February 12, 2020

Data about inmates and jail staff spilled by leaky prison app

A web-mapping project came across detainees' prescriptions and other PII that could be used by identity thieves to victimize prisoners.

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September 18, 2019

Leaky database spills data on 20 million Ecuadorians and businesses

Included are deep details on 7 million minors, one grownup named Julian Assange, and perhaps a few million deceased Ecuadorians.

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September 13, 2019

Leaky database full of Groupon emails turns out to belong to crooks

Crooks made bogus accounts to buy tickets with fake credit cards, resold them to unsuspecting buyers, and left the database-o-fraud wide open.

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June 20, 2019

“Deeply personal medical” records exposed online

The Facebook ad agency xSocialMedia exposed 150K medical histories, along with identifying information for the people involved.

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May 14, 2018

Remote code execution bug found in GPON routers, but how bad is it really?

An anonymous researcher recently disclosed two vulnerabilities in several older models of Dasan-made GPON routers.

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