Solvejg Wastvedt reports: Leaders of the South Washington County Schools apologized Thursday for a massive, accidental release of private student information sent out in an email attachment Wednesday from the district’s transportation department. The attachment contains names, grades, identification numbers, email addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers, bus routes, pick up and drop off times, pick…
Month: August 2017
Google awards student $10k for discovery of App Engine data leak flaw
Charlie Osborne reports: Google has awarded $10,000 to a high school student for the discovery of a bug in Google’s App Engine server which could lead to information disclosure. This week, Ezequiel Pereira said in a blog post that he went bug hunting on July 11 simply due to boredom, and after several failed attempts,…
NYS State Comptroller DiNapoli audit of City of Yonkers
Well, this sounds like an epic FAIL on the City of Yonker’s part, doesn’t it? City of Yonkers – Information Technology (Westchester County) The IT department’s acceptable computer use policy was not signed or acknowledged by all employees and city officials have also not classified personal, private and sensitive information based on its level of…
AU: Perth woman wants PathWest employee ‘sacked’ for revealing records
David Allan-Petale reports: A Perth woman is calling for a female PathWest employee to be “summarily dismissed” after revealing she released confidential medical test results to a man they had both been in a relationship with. The woman, calling herself Suzanne to protect her identity, spoke to 6PR’s Gareth Parker on Tuesday and said around eighteen months…
UK: Islington Council faces huge fine after massive data breach hit 90,000 people
A London council has been fined £70,000 after it accidentally published a cache of personal data including medical details, cheques, and even one person’s prison record. Islington’s parking system website published unencrypted personal information of almost 90,000 people, meaning it could be accessed by simply manipulating a URL Read more on Evening Standard.
UK: Medical records of Norfolk patients found in a petrol station, a King’s Lynn restaurant and on the pavement
Tom Bristow reports: The region’s hospitals have dismissed staff and said they are tightening up how they look after patients records in the wake of the breaches. More than 650 data protection incidents were reported in the region’s NHS trusts last year, according to data obtained by this newspaper through the Freedom of Information Act….