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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 22 – 28 April 2024

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Keyboard app vulnerabilities reveal keystrokes to network eavesdroppers Security researchers have identified critical security vulnerabilities in Cloud-based pinyin keyboard apps from Baidu, Inc., We identified certain accounts that we believe are affiliated with the Spy.pet website, which we have subsequently banned.”

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 December 2023

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Researchers from the German cyber security company Aplite discovered 3,806 servers from 111 countries accessible on the Internet. million LivaNova Source 1 ; source 2 (New) Manufacturing UK Yes 2.2 million LivaNova Source 1 ; source 2 (New) Manufacturing UK Yes 2.2 Source (New) Manufacturing Canada Yes 1.2

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The Weeks in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 18 – 31 December 2023

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billion records The security researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered an unprotected database exposing more than 1.5 Fowler contacted the company, which secured the database. The security researcher Bob Diachenko identified the leak in September and contacted TuneFab, which fixed the misconfiguration within 24 hours.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 27 November – 3 December 2023

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The security researcher Bob Diachenko of SecurityDiscovery first identified the exposed information in mid-September. Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes 1,212 Butte School District Source (New) Education USA Yes 900+ Fenway Community Health Center, Inc. Data breached: over 300 million records.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 March 2024

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Source (New) Transport USA Yes 3,815 Okta Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Cyber security USA Yes 3,800 Shah Dixit & Associates, P.C. We also found 14 organisations providing a significant update on a previously disclosed incident. Organisation(s) Sector Location Data breached? TB Paysign, Inc.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 1 – 7 April 2024

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Kid Security breached again: children’s live GPS locations exposed on the Internet Last November , the parental control app Kid Security, which allows parents to monitor and control their children’s online safety, was found to have exposed more than 300 million records via misconfigured Elasticsearch and Logstash instances.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 15 – 21 April 2024

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million records from World-Check, a screening database used to screen potential customers for links to illegal activity and government sanctions. Compromised data includes names, passport numbers, Social Security numbers, online crypto account identifiers and bank account numbers. Data breached: 5,300,000 records.