Austin Breasette reports: Thousands of employees’ personal information was sent right to a former Prime Communications employee’s email. “I’ve never experienced anything like this before,” said Tonya Smith. Smith said nothing but nervousness filled her mind after the human resources department sent her 105 pages of personal information of thousands of Prime Communications employees across…
Category: Exposure
Optus facing class action over alleged customer privacy breaches
Tammy Mills reports: Optus has been hit with a class action complaint after it mistakenly published the names, addresses and phone numbers of tens of thousands of customers. The details of about 50,000 of the telco’s customers were published in the White Pages, run by Sensis, last year. Read more on Sydney Morning Herald.
IN: Nagaland govt investigating data leak of stranded persons
Medolenuo Ambrocia reports: Kohima: A major data breach in the government of Nagaland website to help citizens stranded outside the state has led to personal details of these individuals being exposed. Personal information including bank account details, AADHAAR number, phone numbers, address etc have been leaked into the public domain. This is serious as this private…
Oakland County stops COVID-19 data leak
Orion Sang reports: Oakland County secured a data leakage of internal COVID-19 data that was used by the Oakland County Health Division for public health analysis. The leakage originated on Tuesday night and was stopped Wednesday morning. […] The data that was leaked was “of a non-public map that was unintentionally marked as public during…
Ca: Personal employee information mistakenly published at Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre
Jeff Walters reports: CBC News has learned hundreds of employees at the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre had their personal information published online by their workplace. At the end of March, 245 employees had personal information published on the hospital’s website, including their names, as well as their social insurance number (SIN) and other identifying…
You’re One Misconfiguration Away from a Cloud-Based Data Breach
Suresh Kasinathan writes: Not all instances of data exposure in the cloud are the product of malicious intentions from either internal or external actors. In its “2019 Data Breach Investigations Report” (DBIR), for instance, Verizon Enterprise showed that errors constituted one of the top causes in the data breaches it examined. Verizon’s researchers attributed 21%…