Jessica Suerth reports: Thousands of Arizonans were affected by a data breach earlier this year that targeted the state’s Medicaid agency, it was announced Monday. The breach of the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System affected more than 3,100 individuals when their IRS 1095-B forms were delivered to the wrong addresses. Read more on KTAR.
Category: Exposure
Hundreds of immigrant recruits risk ‘death sentence’ after Army bungles data, lawmaker says
Today’s reminder that some “human error” breaches can put lives at risk. Alex Horton reports: Army officials inadvertently disclosed sensitive information about hundreds of immigrant recruits from nations such as China and Russia, in a breach that could aid hostile governments in persecuting them or their families, a lawmaker and former U.S. officials said. A…
Licensed Producer under scrutiny for possible privacy breach of patient info
Emma Spears reports: Reports are surfacing that Canadian licensed producer RedeCan is facing a privacy breach after a mass email to patients revealed their personal information to other patients. Although officials from RedeCan have not commented publicly, an email from the LP to a patient impacted by the breach indicates the company has self-reported the…
MA: Release of employees’ partial Social Security numbers troubles Worcester teachers, School Committee members
Scott O’Connell reports: Teachers and School Committee members are looking for answers from the School Department in the wake of the district’s release of personal information for thousands of school employees to a testing company last year. According to Worcester Superintendent Maureen Binienda, the district’s IT department opted to use the last four digits of…
Names, banking information accidentally shared in emails to University of Waterloo students
CBC News reports: Personal information including names, student numbers, addresses and banking information of some University of Waterloo students was accidentally sent to a mailing list of 2,000 students, the school says. The emails went out Wednesday evening. Of the emails sent to the mailing list, 15 contained some private information like names and student numbers,…
UK: Gateshead Council data breaches share health and debt details
BBC reports: A council has admitted a series of data breaches, including uploading personal medical details to an online forum. Gateshead Council also sent letters containing private information to the wrong addresses and sent a debtor a list of other people who owed it money. The 19 breaches happened in the ten months after new…