Michael Morrah reports on yet another government data breach in New Zealand: There’s been another government breach of privacy. A Work and Income employee has emailed the private details of 34 beneficiaries to another claimant by mistake. Even WINZ bosses are calling this breach a “major stuff up”. It’s the latest in a series of…
Month: May 2013
Titanic Belfast web site data leak
If you tried to obtain tickets to the Game of Thrones exhibition through the Titanic Belfast web site, some of your data personal may have leaked. See this BBC report.
Privacy Regulators and the Media Can Make a Bad Data Breach Worse
Larry Keating writes: …. the privacy commissioners hammer down hard on those high profile losses when thousands of records go missing. They want disclosure of the incident and protection for the individuals. The media piles on, always on the hunt for the details, to splay the true extent of the incident for their readers. But…
FL: Clearwater officer disciplined for looking up personal information on state database
Peter Jamison reports: Internal investigators say a Clearwater police commander used a law enforcement database more than 100 times during a two-year period for “questionable” purposes, inappropriately looking up personal information about individuals including his ex-wife’s boyfriend, a television news reporter and the wives of other police officers. A summary of the internal investigation, obtained…
FBI, city of Akron investigating hacker attack that compromised identities of 8,000 taxpayers
Jenn Strathman reports: Cyber hackers from Turkey hacked into the city of Akron’s website and replaced city messages with politically-motivated ones on Thursday. Also, nearly 8,000 taxpayers had their personal information stolen including their names, addresses, and social security numbers. I don’t know about you, but I would have lead with the theft of the…
Updates to HHS's breach tool (updated)
HHS added 13 more incidents to its breach tool today. Six of them have been reportedly previously on this blog: Hope Hospice IHC Health Services, Inc. dba Intermountain Life Flight. Of note, they reported that that the breach began on October 12, 2009. That’s a long time to go undetected. El Centro Regional Medical Center reported that 189,489 patients…