Rainwalk Pet Insurance Exposes 158 GB of US Customer and Pet Data

A misconfigured database belonging to a pet insurance company, "Rainwalk Pet Insurance," exposed sensitive PII and veterinary claim data. The data exposure reveals new fraud tactics, including microchip and reimbursement scams...

UK Software Firm Exposed 1.1TB of Healthcare Worker Records

8M UK healthcare worker records, including IDs and financial data, exposed due to a misconfigured staff management database…...

Aussie Travel Agency Data Leak Puts Thousands of Tourists at Risk

By Deeba Ahmed Another day, another misconfigured database that jeopardizes the online security and privacy of unsuspecting tourists worldwide. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Aussie Travel Agency Data Leak Puts Thousands of Tourists at Risk...

Chinese firm leaked 200m Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn users’ data

By Deeba Ahmed The 400GB worth of data was exposed due to a misconfigured Elasticsearch database. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Chinese firm leaked 200m Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn users data...

“Biggest webmaster forum” Digital Point exposes trove of user data

By Zara Khan Digital Point exposed the data on a misconfigured Elasticsearch database. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: "Biggest webmaster forum" Digital Point exposes trove of user data...

Data Breaches of the Week: Tales of PoS Malware, Latrine Status

The data-breach onslaught continued this week with casualties sprinkled across the globe. Victims included retailers, banks and one state-owned gas station. The theme this was the Indian subcontinent, with consumers in Pakistan and India feeling the main brunt of the proceedings. A point-of-sale...

191 Million US Voters' Personal Info Exposed by Misconfigured Database

BREAKING: A misconfigured database has resulted in the exposure of around 191 Million voter records including voters' full names, their home addresses, unique voter IDs, date of births and phone numbers. The database was discovered on December 20th by Chris Vickery, a white hat hacker, who was ab...