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Sensitive plastic surgery images exposed online
Researchers at VPN advisory company vpnMentor have found yet another online data exposure caused by a misconfigured cloud database.
Data about inmates and jail staff spilled by leaky prison app
A web-mapping project came across detainees’ prescriptions and other PII that could be used by identity thieves to victimize prisoners.
Leaky database spills data on 20 million Ecuadorians and businesses
Included are deep details on 7 million minors, one grownup named Julian Assange, and perhaps a few million deceased Ecuadorians.
Leaky database full of fake Groupon emails turns out to belong to crooks
Crooks made bogus accounts to buy tickets with fake credit cards, resold them to unsuspecting buyers, and left the database-o-fraud wide open.
“Deeply personal medical” records exposed online
The Facebook ad agency xSocialMedia exposed 150K medical histories, along with identifying information for the people involved.
Remote code execution bug found in GPON routers, but how bad is it really?
An anonymous researcher recently disclosed two vulnerabilities in several older models of Dasan-made GPON routers.