Nedbank Group, one of South Africa’s largest banks, has disclosed a security incident warning customers of a potential impact of data. In the notice, the bank explained that the breach occurred at Computer Facilities (Pty) Ltd., a third-party service provider that issues SMS and email marketing information for Nedbank. Approximately, 1.7 million customers were potentially […]
Author: Meera Narendra
#Privacy: US non-profit exposes private student documents
The Institute of International Education (IIE) has unwittingly exposed a database containing the personal information of thousands of students. Security researcher Bob Diachenko, who discovered the database, explained that IIE utilised a content management system, Drupal, which stored the documents on two identical MongoDB databases hosted at different IP addresses. Both databases were misconfigured and […]
#Privacy: World Health Organization warns of ongoing Coronavirus phishing attacks
The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a warning about phishing attacks impersonating the organisation. Cyber criminals are now capitalising on the fears surrounding the global health emergency Coronavirus, by disguising themselves as WHO. “WHO is aware of suspicious email messages attempting to take advantage of the 2019 novel coronavirus emergency,” said the agency in […]
#Privacy: Photo app exposes over 100K user data
Popular photo app, PhotoSquared, has exposed the privacy and security of 100,000s of its users due to an exposed database. Researchers at vpnMentor discovered the database on January 30, to which the AWS S3 bucket was found unsecured with no password protection. The database in question contained over a million records, amounting to 94.7 GB […]
#Privacy: UK council struck by possible ransomware attack
Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council, in the north-east of England, have had their online public services down for over a week following a cyber-attack. According to reports, on February 8, Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council had its IT systems targeted, resulting in its online services being shut down for more than a week and impacting […]
#Privacy: FairBridge Inn & Suites exposes nearly 8.1 million records
An unprotected database has resulted in the exposure of a customer booking platform. Discovered by security researcher Jeremiah Fowler, on December 11, 2019, the database belonging to Fairbridge Inn & Suites was not password protected, thus open and publicly accessible to anyone to view. A vast majority of the 8.1 million records were Nginx logs and […]
#Privacy: Data breach exposes 144K Canadians
A recent report has revealed that in the past two years, 144,000 Canadians have had their personal data compromised by several government departments and agencies. According to an 800-page document tabled in the House of Commons and filed by Conservative MP Dean Allison, across 10 entities there was a total of 7,992 breaches. The Canada Revenue […]
#Privacy: RideLondon discloses data breach
Organisers of Ride London cycling event have apologised over an error resulting in a data breach impacting just under 2,100 people. RideLondon, is a popular 100-mile cycling event which takes place in London and Surrey. Due to it being oversubscribed, a ballot system is used in order to select applicants. However, a mix-up has resulted […]
#Privacy: Facebook Dating launch delayed following inspection by Irish watchdog
Facebook has been forced to postpone the launch of its new dating feature in Europe, following a last minute inspection from the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC). After not being informed about the launch, the DPC had sent agents to Facebook’s Dublin office. “We were very concerned that this was the first that we’d heard […]
#Privacy: Met Police deploys facial recognition technology in Stratford
Thousands of shoppers in Stratford, UK, had their faces scanned by facial recognition technology, deployed by the Metropolitan Police on Tuesday. Just last month, the Met Police announced that it would begin the operational use of Live Facial Recognition (LFR) technology. On Tuesday it had started to do so at key locations in Stratford between […]