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Heartland Counseling Services announces potential contacts information breach in email gaffe

Posted on July 17, 2020 by Dissent

Reilly Mahon reports: Heartland Counseling Services, Inc. said on Thursday that the protected health information of more than 500 contacts was potentially compromised. They said in a statement that a breach happened on May 19 as a result of the use of electronic mail communication made to the contacts of Heartland Counseling Services. The breach…

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“We take data protection very seriously,” New Zealand Friday edition

Posted on July 16, 2020 by Dissent

There were two incidents concerning New Zealand leaks or breaches in my news feed this morning. One of them caught my attention because the story didn’t seem accurate — and not because the reporters weren’t reporting accurately, but because the entity may not have been fully transparent or accurate about the incident. First: Mandy Te,…

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Ca: University of Lethbridge reveals details regarding privacy breach at health centre

Posted on July 16, 2020 by Dissent

Quinn Campbell reports on an email gaffe that disclosed student health information: The University of Lethbridge says an Excel document with personal information of 1,225 patients at its health centre was inadvertently shared with a student. The document that was the subject of a privacy breach included names, dates of birth, personal health numbers, genders…

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No-Log VPNs Exposed Users’ Logs and Personal Details for All to See

Posted on July 15, 2020 by Dissent

Ugh.  vpnMentor reports: A group of free VPN (virtual private network) apps left their server completely open and accessible, exposing private user data for anyone to see. …..  Each of these VPNs claims that their services are “no-log” VPNs, which means that they don’t record any user activity on their respective apps. However, we found multiple…

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UK: South East Coast Ambulance employee personal and medical details exposed

Posted on July 15, 2020 by Dissent

Charlie Harman reports: The South East Coast Ambulance Service has experienced a massive data breach and has referred itself to a privacy watchdog. In May, the personal and medical details of all ambulance staff could have been seen by employees outside of senior management. Read more on KentOnline

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Providence Health Plan notifies members after documents exposed by business associate coding error

Posted on July 7, 2020 by Dissent

June turned out to be a busy month for breach reports involving health/medical data. My worksheet has more than 50 entries and I’m still adding reports as I find them. Today, I found one from Providence Health Plan in Oregon that I thought I’d mention here as it impacted almost 50,000 plan members, and I…

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