3.7 million Hong Kong voters’ data at risk
Laptops containing 3.7 million Hong Kong voters’ data were stolen after chief executive election. Devices contained ID card numbers, addresses and mobile numbers, writes www.scmp.com .
Data leak exposes details of 450K lottery subscribers
Nearly half a million subscribers to charity lotteries have been warned that their personal details may have been compromised by a data leak, writes DutchNews.nl.
Verifone has been hit by a data breach at gas stations
Verifone controllers at approximately two dozen gas station convenience stores were targeted by an intrusion in January, reports http://www.businessinsider.com on the ground of security blog Krebs on Security.
Major Spammer Accidentally Leaks Data on a Billion People
A huge email marketing organization called River City Media failed to safeguard backups of its database of 1.34 billion email accounts, resulting in all that user information being available for anyone to see, informs http://fortune.com. Chris Vickery, a MacKeeper security researcher, wrote Monday that he discovered the unsecured user data in January and worked with security organization Spamhaus and cybersecurity news site CSO Online to further investigate the data breach.
As many as 7.5M voter records involved in Georgia data breach
Millions of Georgia voters may have had their personal information compromised for the second time in as many years, as the Federal Bureau of Investigation opened an investigation Friday at Kennesaw State University’s Center for Election Systems involving an alleged data breach, writes http://www.myajc.com.
Police in southern China bust six large data theft operations
Raids reveal professionally organised criminal operations, some run by loan sharks, that intercepted millions of items of personal data, http://www.scmp.com reports. Police in southern China have busted six data theft operations, arresting 138 suspects at 14 locations in the city of Guangzhou, according to a national newspaper.
MINDEF breach: Stolen data from servicemen and employees
A breach in an Internet-connected system at the Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) earlier this month has resulted in the personal data of 850 national servicemen and employees being stolen, said www.channelnewsasia.com. No classified military data was stolen in the breach of the I-net system, MINDEF said. Classified military information is stored on a separate system that is not connected to the Internet and has more stringent security features, it added.
Centene discloses missing information of 950K people
Michael F. Neidorff, chairman, CEO of Centene, announcing that six missing hard drives contain the name, address, date of birth, social security number, member ID number, and health information of 950,000 members, databreaches.net reports. “The drives were a part of a data project using laboratory results to improve the health outcomes of our members”, Michael F. Neidorff said.
191 million US voters' data exposed online
Personal data and non-public information on almost 60 percent of US citizens was available online because of a misconfigured database. More than 191 million US voters' records have been discovered online by security researchers, zdnet.com reports.
Medical records found in dumpster
Medical records were found in an open air dumpster behind a former medical clinic called AllMed on Eastchase Parkway near Minnie Brown Road in east Montgomery, wtvm.com reports. The records included prescriptions, lab results, names of patients and their birthdays -- all considered Private Health Information under HIPAA privacy laws.
