The leaked data includes photographs and scans of passports, driver’s licenses, credit cards, release forms (contracts), social security numbers, national identification cards, and handwritten bios, among other information, according to a report from vpnMentor. The source of the leaks is PussyCash, an adult affiliate network, the firm wrote in the report. RANSOMWARE HITS CRISIS LEVELS AS ANOTHER COMPANY CAVES TO CRIMINALSThe data leaked was from a so-called S3 Bucket, a Virginia-based Amazon server folder with 19.95GB of visible data, vpnMentor said. In these cases, vpnMentor alerts the company to the breach and, if possible, those affected by the breach. The cybersecurity company was able to access Pussycash’s S3 bucket because it was “completely unsecured and unencrypted.
Source: Fox News January 20, 2020 12:45 UTC