Alice Workman reports: Who knew the one thing that could unite Australia’s diverse multicultural leaders was a privacy breach by the Attorney-General’s office? Christian Porter gathered religious leaders and journalists at The Great Synagogue in Sydney’s CBD last Thursday to read his draft religious discrimination bill. Not all attended — the Catholic Church and Australian…
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AU: Call for formal probe into Barwon Health privacy breach
Bay 93.9 reports: There are calls for an independent investigation after sensitive medical records were found on a Geelong street. The documents included data about dementia and mental health patients and contained information including names, conditions, medication, behaviours and even toileting habits. Barwon Health has apologised to residents and families involved in the breach. Read…
Aussie banks warn customers after fresh PayID data breach
Ry Crozier reports: Banks have started warning customers of a fresh data breach involving PayID records that was reported to new payments platform overseer NPP Australia late Friday. NPP Australia said that an undisclosed number of PayID records “and associated data in the Addressing Service were exposed by a vulnerability in one of the financial…
Arizona State University accidentally reveals email addresses of 4,000 students in HIPAA breach
3TV reports: Arizona State University has notified 4,000 students that their email addresses “were accidentally revealed” in a large data breach. ASU told the students on Aug. 16 it happened in late July when a university office sent bulk emails about renewing health insurance coverage without masking the identities of the recipients. Read more on…
Cincinnati Public School students’ busing info, including pickup spots, inadvertently released to wrong recipients
Max Londberg reports: Cincinnati Public Schools inadvertently released busing information, such as students’ names and their pickup and drop-off locations, to the wrong recipients. The district planned to disseminate about 7,000 students’ information Thursday as a reminder to families as the first day of school approaches. But the district’s internal email system sent an unknown…
Companies Puzzled After Report Says Their Biometric Data Leaked
Bloomberg has an interesting follow-up on a headline-grabbing report from this week: Millions of pieces of personal data, including fingerprints, may have been leaked from a cloud-based service that stores biometric data for companies and organizations worldwide, security researchers said. Computer scientists working with software firm VpnMentor said they discovered a vulnerability in South Korean…