Joseph Aldridge reports: The principal of a small Northland school who posted private student information online says it was done “in error” and he removed it from the school website as soon as he was informed. Kaeo Primary School’s Paul Barker said he mistakenly posted a “teachers only” version of student achievement information on the…
Category: Breach Incidents
UK: Council files dumped in Telford bin
Confidential council files, some containing sensitive personal data, have been found dumped in a bin in Telford. Telford & Wrekin Council said an immediate investigation was launched after the documents – 58 in total – were found by a member of the public. Officers were today contacting all the people whose data was included to…
sncc-psp.com defaced and email list dumped by @LulzSecPortugal
Translated text > > Corruption in the PSP: "Among those responsible investigated by MP and by the General Inspectorate of Internal Administration, is the Superintendent Leopoldo Amaral Almeida, secretary general of those services. At the root of the inquiries are alleged awarding of contracts to much higher costs than prevailing in the market, the misuse…
Vagus Cosmetics Patient Database leaked by @KahunaHackz
A Islamabad cosmetic surgery company has been hacked and had a fairly big dump of information leaked onto pastebin. Every day we see more and more data dumps that some times are worthless and other times are full of important information. This leak is quite important because it contains records of surgery, patients names and personal information and other stuff. the dump comes…
Globe and Mail online classroom hacked – again and again? Wake up, Globe and Mail!
Well, I posted this to DataLossDB.org the other day, but seem to have forgotten to have posted it here. Globe and Mail, the Canadian newspaper, had their online classroom site hacked (http://globeclassroom.ca). The hack was disclosed on Pastebin on November 22, at which time I created an entry for it on DLDB. I then tried…
In: Your personal details end up with raddiwalas
Shashank Rao reports: Your phone company knows where you live, your PAN, your employer and even your monthly salary. But wouldn’t you be shocked to find that the details that you provide so trustingly will find its way to a food stall vendor and, from him, to anyone who cares to stop for a bite?…