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A council chief has apologised after hundreds of residents’ sensitive data was mistakenly shared online. Some names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of 625 people who responded to South Gloucestershire Council’s consultation on 24 October were published online for Read More …
A Dutch cybersecurity outfit says its lead researcher recently stumbled upon a 4TB+ SQL Server backup file belonging to EY exposed to the web, effectively leaking the accounting and consulting megacorp’s secrets. Among the BAK file’s data were API keys, Read More …
One of Australia’s largest banks has apologised to staff who found out they had been fired through an automated email asking them to hand back their laptops. ANZ’s retail banking executive Bruce Rush said it was “not our intention to Read More …
An enormous database, containing millions of highly sensitive information on Swedish citizens, was sitting on the open internet, available for anyone who knew where to look. Cybernews researchers recently uncovered a misconfigured Elasticsearch server which they described as a “goldmine Read More …
Compliance company Vanta has confirmed that a bug exposed the private data of some of its customers to other Vanta customers. The company told TechCrunch that the data exposure was a result of a product code change and not caused Read More …
A security lapse at dating app Raw publicly exposed the personal data and private location data of its users, TechCrunch has found. The exposed data included users’ display names, dates of birth, dating and sexual preferences associated with the Raw Read More …
Health insurance firm Blue Shield has revealed a data breach has exposed protected health data of over 4.7 million members. The information was leaked to Google’s analytics and advertisement platforms following a misconfiguration of Google analytics on Blue Shield sites. Read More …
It’s 2025, and the industry has built some of the most advanced cloud environments ever seen—automated deployments, real-time threat detection and infrastructure that scales with just a few lines of code. Yet, data breaches aren’t slowing down—why? Because a single Read More …
A cybersecurity threat known as a sitting duck exploit is thought to be putting more than one million websites at risk of attack, according to threat intelligence analysts. The fact that the attack methodology remains underreported could be the reason Read More …
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) on Tuesday accused the South China Athletic Association (SCAA) of having inadequate policies and a lack of care, after a data breach affecting more than 72,300 members. An attack by Read More …