Tag Archives: Data

American healthcare giant Kaiser Foundation Health Plan exposed sensitive data on millions of its current and former patients, apparently by mistake. 

Among the data inadvertently shared with advertisers are member names and IP addresses, and information regarding their membership status with Kaiser Permanente. Furthermore, the company leaked information on how members interacted with the website and the apps, and what they searched for in the health encyclopedia. 

Web hosting giant GoDaddy has reported a data breach, and warns that data on 1.2 million customers may have been accessed.

In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, GoDaddy’s chief information security officer Demetrius Comes said the company detected unauthorized access to its systems where it hosts and manages its customers’ WordPress servers. WordPress is a web-based content management system used by millions to set up blogs or websites. GoDaddy lets customers host their own WordPress installs on their servers.

GoDaddy said the unauthorized person used a compromised password to get access to GoDaddy’s systems around September 6. GoDaddy said it discovered the breach last week on November 17. It’s not clear if the compromised password was protected with two-factor…

Top chipmaker Nexperia suffered a ransomware attack last month which saw threat actors get away with a terabyte of sensitive corporate data. 

“Nexperia has become aware that an unauthorized third party accessed certain Nexperia IT servers in March 2024,” the company said in a statement shared with BleepingComputer. “We promptly took action and disconnected the affected systems from the internet to contain the incident and implemented extensive mitigation.”

Imagine a world where knowledge, data, insights, breakthroughs aren’t hoarded but shared, with a purpose: to tackle the monumental challenges facing our communities, societies and planet. This isn’t a utopian ideal, but a technical reality, and more importantly, moral imperative today.

Debates that were once the domain of Ivory Tower academics are front and center in the boardrooms of organizations working in energy, defense, transportation and healthcare. Stung by years of instability, volatility, global crises, conflict, and tension, companies are desperate to increase resilience, efficiency and competitiveness. There is growing evidence of individuals within enterprises keen to work cooperatively in ecosystems, who see the vastness of the challenges their businesses face and…

The Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) suffered a data breach in late February 2024 resulting in the exposure of sensitive data belonging to some of its members. 

In an announcement published on the OWASP website, Executive Director Andrew van der Stock confirmed the breach and explained that it happened due to a misconfiguration of an old OWASP Wiki web server.