A vpnMentor’s research team discovered a data breach of Proud Makatizen, an official website from the city of Makati, the Philippines, aimed at providing Covid-19 relief services and more. The breach involved 300,000 Makati residents now at risk of relevant online attacks. Read the Vpnmentor report here.
According to a hacker claim, 1 billion data of Chinese citizens are now for sale on the dark web. If confirmed, this may be the most significant data breach in Chinese history so far. Read more on the OCCRP website.
A US healthcare clinic has recently informed the local authorities about a data breach incident involving more than 92,000 patients. The incident announced in late June 2022 took place in December 2021. Find the full article on this incident here.
A security incident occurred in the city of Amagasaki in Japan, where an employee of BIPROGY, a company hired by the city’s government to find out who in the city was eligible for tax exemptions, has lost a flash drive including the dates of birth, addresses, bank account numbers, and tax details of the 465,177...
OpenSea is apopular non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace valued several billion dollars and hundreds of thousands of users. The employee of one of its vendors has reportedly misused employee access to download and share OpenSea’s users and newsletter subscribers with an unauthorized external party. The company owning the platform has reported the suspected breach to law...
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has ordered CafePress t-shirt and merchandise site former owner to pay a USD 500,000 fine for a data breach it suffered in 2018, but which it also covered up, that impacted more than 23 million customers. The FTC found out that CAfe Press failed to protect their personal data,...
In a recent audit, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has recommended the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a mechanism to improve the effectiveness of its data breach reporting process. HHS sets standards for protecting electronic health information and enforces compliance with them, where data breaches for entities under the...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a press release announcing that Paige A. Thompson, former Amazon Web Services (AWS) engineer who gained illicit access to sensitive data belonging to Capital One customers, has been convicted. Thompson was found guilty of wire fraud, five counts of unauthorized access to a protected computer, and damaging a...
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