The following is their notice: NORTH BAY, ON – The North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit (“Health Unit”) announced today that there was a privacy breach in relation to its online COVID-19 dashboard. The dashboard contained information related to the number of COVID-19 tests and confirmed cases in the local community. Inadvertently, personal identifying…
Category: Exposure
Ohioans’ and Coloradans’ personal info exposed in pandemic unemployment data breaches
Two more states have reported breaches or issues with state portals to apply for pandemic-related unemployment benefits. In Ohio, Maggy McDonel reports: The personal information of Ohioans receiving pandemic unemployment assistance was recently exposed to a data breach, according to Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services. The information reportedly included names, Social Security numbers…
Coronavirus: Serco shares email addresses of hundreds of contact tracers in ‘privacy breach’
Matt Mathers reports: E-mail addresses of 300 contact tracers have been shared accidentally by Serco in what could be a breach of data protection rules. The government is using the outsourcing firm to help with its tracing strategy aimed at monitoring Covid-19 cases. The company has been training people to track cases of coronavirus in the UK and has so far…
Tusla fined €75,000 for three GDPR violations
Luke Irwin reports: Tusla, Ireland’s child and family agency, has been fined €75,000 for three breaches of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). It was found to have disclosed the personal information of children to unauthorised parties on three occasions. Read more on IT Governance.
Covve revealed as source of data breach impacting 23m individuals
Adam Bannister reports: Covve, the popular address book app, has been identified as the source of a data breach that exposed the details of nearly 23 million individuals. Troy Hunt, founder of Have I Been Pwned?, tweeted on Saturday (May 16) that the app had been pinpointed as the source of a publicly accessible database that he had been…
RU: Data of 9 million customers of the Russian courier service leaked, but whose leak is it?
E Hacking News reports: Data belonging to nine million customers of the CDEC Express transportation service was put up for sale on the Web for 70 thousand rubles ($950). This is the largest leak of personal data in Russian delivery services […] The CDEC claims that there was no data leak from the company. As…