VICTORIA—In an investigation report released today, B.C. Information and Privacy Commissioner Elizabeth Denham found that the Ministry of Education failed to protect the personal information of 3.4 million B.C. and Yukon students stored on a portable hard drive. “This investigation is unique in that we are looking at events that happened more than four years ago. The passage of…
Category: Breach Incidents
Florida International University data hacked and dumped: claim
On January 16, DataBreaches.net attempted to notify Florida International University about a possible hack after seeing email addresses and plain text passwords of what appear to be faculty and students at FIU have been dumped on a paste site. This site sent FIU a sample of the records in the paste with a link to the paste, noting that there…
North Carolina State University investigating claimed hack (UPDATED)
On January 17, DataBreaches.net became aware of data that had been uploaded to a paste site on January 15. It claimed to be data from the cwise subdomain of North Carolina State University’s web site. From that site: The NOAA Cooperative Program for Climate & Weather Impacts on Society and the Environment (CWISE) is a collaboration between NOAA’s National Climatic Data…
San Diego County employees’ details erroneously sent to Wells Fargo
Right before Christmas, the County of San Diego Benefits Division discovered that some employees’ personal information had been inadvertently shared with Wells Fargo. The problem arose when the county sent personal information of those employees enrolling in a Wells Fargo Health Savings Account. A programming error by the county’s service provider, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services, resulted in the additional transmission…
‘Dance Moms’ season 6 cast members hacked again
Janna Dela Cruz reported this last month, but I just came across it today, so with the proviso that I never even heard of this show: “Dance Moms” stars Abby Lee Miller, Maddie Ziegler and other cast members of the Lifetime series were reportedly hacked. TMZ has word that hackers were able to take control of the…
Il: Garbage truck driver finds top secret Navy docs
A military garbage truck driver prevented a potentially devastating IDF information leak on Wednesday, when he discovered highly classified documents from the office of the Navy’s chief of staff while emptying out his vehicle at the Hiriya trash dump site in central Israel. Read more on Times of Israel.