Information security analytics

The personal data of up to 14 million people in the Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan and Turkey has been stolen by online criminals in a cyber-attack on the systems of Dubai ride sharing platform Careem. Company says customers' credit card details were held by third party and were not compromised, web portal The National reports.

Profile data was scraped without user consent or knowledge to "build a three-dimensional picture" on millions of people. The data was subsequently found by Chris Vickery, director of cyber risk research at security firm UpGuard. Vickery showed ZDNet the data first-hand in New York last week.

Tech savvy system admins and some other IT specialists are major risk factors for enterprises, as they know how all information systems work and can easily bypass any less-than-perfect protection. However, most cases here are unintentional and caused by human errors. This is a digest of data leaks by IT specialists, prepared by InfoWatch Analytical Center.

Kensington and Chelsea Council (KCC) has been fined £120,000 by the UK data watchdog for inadvertently identifying hundreds of property owners, The BBC reports.

Sensitive personal information belonging to more than 1 million individuals seeking information about higher education institutions was exposed online earlier this year, EdScoop has learned.

The success of football business relies heavily on data security. Indeed, data compromising may affect player transfers, financial performance of clubs, and even fan loyalty. This is a digest of data leaks in football prepared by InfoWatch Analytical Center.

Virtua Medical Group, one of southern New Jersey’s largest health care providers, will pay more than $400,000 in fines and penalties in order to settle claims that it failed to properly protect the privacy of patients whose medical records were made available online, The New Jersey Law Journal reports.

Four Singapore Universities were attacked by alleged Iranian hackers, who stole more than 31 terabytes of academic data and intellectual property from other institutions across the world, The International Business Times writes.

In January-March 2018, InfoWatch Analytical Center registered 20% more leaks year over year. Here is an overview of the Q1 high-profile incidents.

Facebook said that the data of up to 87 million users may have been improperly shared with a political consulting firm connected to President Trump during the 2016 election — a figure far higher than the estimate of 50 million that had been widely cited since the leak was reported last month, The New York Times reports.