Private intelligence gathering firm LocalBlox leaked data on 48 million users that was scraped from Facebook, LinkedIn, Zillow and other sites.

Mike Mimoso talks to Chris Vickery of Upguard of the recent rash of Amazon S3 data leaks.

Voter registration data belonging to the entirety of Chicago’s electoral roll—1.8 million records—was found a week ago in an Amazon Web Services bucket.

Power Quality Engineering publicly exposed sensitive electrical infrastructure data on the public internet tied to Dell Technologies, SBC, Freescale, Oracle, Texas Instruments and the City of Austin.

Data belonging to 14 million Verizon customers was exposed by a partner, which misconfigured a repository storing the personal information it had access to.

Almost 200 million voter profiles culled by Republican data broker Deep Root Analytics were left exposed on an Amazon S3 server.

A security researcher claims that data belonging to doctors deployed in the United States Special Operations Command was left unsecured online.

White hat hacker Chris Vickery uncovered a database of 154 million U.S. voter profiles on an unprotected server chockfull of sensitive data that includes voter names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, gun ownership information, preferences on gay marriage and links to individual social media accounts. The data was owned by voter data broker L2 which sold...

Child safety firm uKnowKids is blasting a security researcher who discovered the company exposed 1,700 identities of the children they were supposed to be protecting. On Monday, security researcher Chris Vickery alerted uKnowKids, a company that helps parents keep tabs on their kid’s online activities, that one of its databases containing sensitive company information and...

A trove of MacKeeper user data—some 13 million records—has been locked down after a researcher found an exposed and accessible database using a simple Shodan query. Chris Vickery revealed his discovery on Monday on Reddit in more of an appeal to reach officials at Kromtech, the parent company that owns MacKeeper, a suite of performance...