Here’s a reminder that not all breaches are cyber breaches. We still read about entities that just toss files with sensitive information in the trash. Alexis Means recently reported on a police department that is allegedly a repeat offender that way: the Toledo Police Department in Ohio. Toledo Police have launched an investigation into who…
Category: Exposure
Almost all citizens of city of Eindhoven have their personal data exposed
Graham Cluley reports: A data breach involving the Dutch city of Eindhoven left the personal information related to almost all of its citizens exposed. As Eindhovens Dagblad reports, two files containing the personal data of 221,511 inhabitants of Eindhoven were accessible to unauthorised parties for a period of time last year. Everyone who lives in the Netherlands…
Police Service of Northern Ireland facing £750k fine following data breach that exposed personal information of more than 9,000 staff
Suzanne McGonagle reports: The PSNI is facing a £750,000 fine following the spreadsheet error that exposed the personal information of its entire workforce. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said the fine comes after information relating to more than 9,000 serving PSNI officers and staff was published online in August last year. An investigation by the…
Guardant notifies patients of unintended information exposure going back to October 2020
A notification by Guardant Health, Inc. in California (“Guardant”) caught DataBreaches’ eye yesterday. Guardant is a laboratory that performs cancer screening tests on samples received from its physician and hospital partners. Patient information that they received may have been inadvertently exposed between October 5, 2020 and February 29, 2024. They explain: Guardant recently determined that…
Unsecured Health Genie bucket exposed almost 450,000 files with patient data — Cybernews
It is disgraceful that there are so many huge data leaks involving sensitive personal data, and yet here we are again. Cybernews reports: Health Genie, a healthcare IT solutions provider, left an open instance, exposing patients’ personal details as well as sensitive clinical data. The India-based healthcare solutions provider left an open Amazon S3 bucket,…
Kaiser to notify millions of a data breach after sharing patients’ data with advertisers
Zack Whittaker reports: U.S. health conglomerate Kaiser is notifying millions of current and former members of a data breach after confirming it shared patients’ information with third-party advertisers, including Google, Microsoft and X (formerly Twitter). In a statement shared wcith TechCrunch, Kaiser said that it conducted an investigation that found “certain online technologies, previously installed…