No surprise here…. ABC6 in Ohio reports: A class-action lawsuit has been filed in the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas, alleging Deloitte—the contractor the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) hired to create and manage the new Pandemic Unemployment Assistance system—acted “negligently and recklessly,” leading to last week’s data leak. Read more on…
Category: Exposure
Identities of Northern Ireland abuse survivors exposed in email gaffe
The breach described in the post is already one of the worst breaches of 2020 in my opinion. It’s 2020 and yet we are still seeing privacy breaches involving very sensitive data due to an email gaffe. From media coverage, it is likely that a newsletter that was sent out put recipients’ email addresses in…
A massive database of 8 billion Thai internet records leaks
Zack Whittaker reports: Thailand’s largest cell network AIS has pulled a database offline that was spilling billions of real-time internet records on millions of Thai internet users. Security researcher Justin Paine said in a blog post that he found the database, containing DNS queries and Netflow data, on the internet without a password. With access to this…
Trump’s Press Secretary Appears to Have Exposed President’s Banking Information
Daniel Politi reports: During a briefing on Friday, Donald Trump’s press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, wanted to tell a feel-good story of where the president had decided to donate his salary this quarter. So she held up the $100,000 check that she said Trump would donate to the Department of Health and Human Services to “support…
Five months after they were notified of a data breach, Prime Communication notifies 8,000 employees
Last month, I pointed readers to a news report out of Moore, Oklahoma about how Tonya Smith, a former employee of Prime Communications, had reportedly been sent an email with personal information on 8,000 of their employees. The mistake occurred on December 11, 2019 after Smith had been terminated by Prime for performance issues. In…
TN: The Little Clinic notifies more than 10,000 patients after discovering glitch in online appointment system
The following is a press release: NASHVILLE, Tenn.May 22, 2020– The Little Clinic (TLC) announced today that patients could have had their protected health information (PHI) accessed due to a failure in TLC’s online appointment functionality. The Little Clinic made the discovery internally and found if a patient made an appointment and modified that appointment online,…