More than 6,000 asylum seekers U.S. custody had their names and other personally identifiable information, as well as immigration details, "erroneously" posted by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on its website on Monday, according to The Register.
ICE was informed by Human Rights First about the breach hours after the data dump, which occurred during a "routine" update of its website.
"Upon notification, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement took swift action to immediately rectify the error. Though unintentional, this release of information is a breach of policy and the agency is investigating the incident and taking all corrective actions necessary," said ICE in an online statement.
The Los Angeles Times reported that the breach exposed immigrants' names, nationalities, birthdates, case status, and detention locations.
"This data breach puts people's lives in danger and only adds to ICE's well-documented history of dysfunction and lapses in internal accountability," said the ACLU regarding the incident.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission imposed $196 million in total fines to AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon for engaging in the unlawful sale of customers' location information to data aggregators, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
BleepingComputer reports that U.S. nationally licensed debt collection agency Financial Business and Consumer Solutions had information from more than 1.95 million individuals across the country compromised following a data breach in February.
U.S. independent record label Empire Distribution, which has worked with Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg, and 50 Cent, had its sensitive data exposed as a result of an environment file misconfiguration, Cybernews reports.
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