NHS Digital booking website had unexpected side effect: It leaked people's jab status
Wanna find out if your employee has had a shot? Just lob her postcode and DoB into this website
06 May 2021
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Volunteer-run pirate Manga website attacked, loses hashed passwords, has ‘nobody’ to fix the mess
Dot-org has been offline for a month, says ‘people who have ill intentions’ behind crack
26 Apr 2021
UK firm NOW: Pensions tells some customers a 'service partner' leaked their data all over 'public software forum'
Updated Compromised info include names, email addresses, DoBs, and National Insurance numbers
22 Dec 2020
45 million medical scans from hospitals all over the world left exposed online for anyone to view – some servers were laced with malware
23,000 Britons' data was among unsecured info, finds research
15 Dec 2020
Cayman Islands investment fund left entire filestore viewable by world+dog in unsecured Azure blob
Exclusive Blank share certificates, passport scans, you name it
01 Dec 2020
Micropayments company Coil distributes new privacy policy with email that puts users' addresses in the ‘To:’ field
Hundreds of email addresses exposed, customers predictably less-than-thrilled
17 Nov 2020
Kids' gaming website Animal Jam breached after miscreants spot private AWS key on pwned Slack channel
Updated Tens of millions of usernames and passwords go walkies amid claims of decryption
12 Nov 2020
Hackers rummaged about in Finnish psychotherapy clinic – now patients extorted with public data dump threats
Details on 300 reportedly already published to Tor website
26 Oct 2020
Diplomats are supposed to be subtle and clever. Australia’s just leaked 1,000 citizens’ email addresses
And not just any citizens, but folks stranded overseas and in dire need of assistance
01 Oct 2020
Wondering how to tell the world you've been hacked? Here's a handy guide from infosec academics
Pair of England's unis figure out better way of admitting terrible thing
24 Sep 2020
UKIP blackmail, data breach sueball allegations were groundless, rules High Court
Tawdry political scuffle over database access binned for lack of evidence
27 Jul 2020
Seven 'no log' VPN providers accused of leaking – yup, you guessed it – 1.2TB of user logs onto the internet
Maybe it was the old Lionel Hutz play: 'No-logging VPN? I meant, No! Logging VPN!'
17 Jul 2020
Airline-chasing lawyers leap on Easyjet for £18bn after 9m folks' data, itineraries nicked
No win, no fee. But if they win it's an up to £5.4bn fee
26 May 2020
Insider threat? Pffft. Hackers on the outside are the ones mostly making off with your private biz data, says Verizon
Malware-led intrusions falling out of fashion, too
19 May 2020
At the Supreme Court, Morrisons pops data breach liability win into its trolley – but it's not a get-out-of-compo free card for businesses
Vicarious liability now applies to intentional leaks, top court says
01 Apr 2020
Brit housing association blabs 3,500 folks' sexual orientation, ethnicity in email blunder
Updated Please update your contact details in this handy spreadsheet ... oh
25 Mar 2020
Staffer emails compromised and customer details exposed in T-Mobile US's third security whoopsie in as many years
And there it is – exactly what telco was fretting over in FY'19 results
05 Mar 2020
Delicious irony: Credit rating builder Loqbox lets customer details and card numbers slip after 'sophisticated attack'
'We are truly sorry'
02 Mar 2020
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