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fromSecuritymagazine
4 months ago
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5M Records Exposed, Leaking Sensitive Auto Insurance Data

An unprotected ClaimPix database exposed 5.1 million files (10 TB) containing PII and vehicle records, enabling fraud and identity theft.
fromSecuritymagazine
5 months ago
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1.1M Impacted by Farmers Insurance Data Breach, Security Leaders Discuss

Farmers Insurance suffered a third-party breach of ~1.1 million customers' PII—names, addresses, birthdates, driver’s license numbers, last four SSNs—possibly tied to Salesforce social engineering.
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fromSecuritymagazine
2 weeks ago

This Website Exposed ICE Data - Now, It's Faced a Cyberattack

A publicly accessible ICE List database exposes PII for roughly 4,500 federal ICE agents and supervisors and recently suffered a DDoS attack reportedly originating from Russia.
fromSecuritymagazine
3 months ago

85,000 Pet and Pet Owner Records Exposed

Cybersecurity Researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered a database that lacked password protection as well as encryption, exposing 85,361 files (158 GB in total). The records included invoices, claims, and emails that contained policy holder names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and other personally identifiable information (PII). The personal information of pets were also exposed, including their names, ages, breeds, medical histories, microchip numbers, and more.
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