Football shockers started to flow on Friday, after journalists analyzed more than 70m exfiltrated documents, totaling 3.4 terabytes of data.
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Social Security numbers exposed on US government transparency site
The US government exposed dozens of people’s’ personal details, including social security numbers, due to an online mishap on a public transparency portal.
Babysitting app suffers ‘temporary data breach’ of 93,000 users
Babysitting-booking app Sitter “temporarily” exposed the personal data of 93,000 account holders, according to a researcher who recently discovered the trove of data using the Shodan Internet of Things (IoT) search engine.
Comcast Xfinity web flaws exposed customer data
It’s one thing to discover a data leak, it’s another to find out from a journalist that your website is leaking customer data.
Second former Equifax staffer charged with insider trading
In another entry for the ‘what were they thinking’ file, a second former Equifax executive has been charged with insider trading in advance of the company’s massive data breach announcement last September.
Facebook sends weekly app emails to wrong people
In another one of those privacy hiccups Facebook is making a habit of lately, the company has admitted accidentally copying some weekly app developer emails to the wrong recipients.
Shodan and passwords sitting in a tree, S-H-O-W-I-N-G!
If an application offers authentication security, it’s always a good idea to turn it on if that isn’t the default setting.
vBulletin enforces password reset after website attack
vBulletin and Foxit Software forums hack exposes hundreds of thousands of records amid zero-day vulnerability speculation.
Season 5 Game of Thrones episodes leaked online
HBO says that preview copies of Game of Thrones have somehow been breached. They’d already been copied at least 1 million times before Sunday’s airing of the new season’s first episode. 
Why Jeb Bush’s 250,000 email giveaway is a bigger gamble for us than him
On the face of it Jeb Bush’s decision to make 250,000 emails from his time as Governor public is a great step forward in transparency. But what about those people who sent the emails?