Jeremy Kirk reports: A large health insurer in Western Australia inadvertently shared the home addresses of some psychologists to a web-based appointment booking service, the West Australian reported Wednesday. The health insurer, HBF, passed names and addresses for psychologists to Whitecoat, a company that develops an online booking and patient review mobile application and website. The details…
Category: Exposure
IE: Health body apologizes for email gaffe exposing email addresses of 200 job applicants
A statutory health body has apologised for a data breach in which the email addresses of unsuccessful applicants to a job were mistakenly shared. In an email informing individuals that their application had been unsuccessful, the email addresses of about 200 other applicants were shared. The email, seen by TheJournal.ie, was sent by the Pre-Hospital Emergency…
Popular avatar app Boomoji exposed millions of users’ contact lists and location data
Zack Whittaker reports: Popular animated avatar creator app Boomoji, with more than five million users across the world, exposed the personal data of its entire user base after it failed to put passwords on two of its internet-facing databases. The China-based app developer left the ElasticSearch databases online without passwords — a U.S.-based database for its international…
AU: Thousands affected in ActewAGL and Icon Water mail-out privacy breach
Jasper Lindell reports: ActewAGL has confirmed 400 electricity, gas and water customers have received bundles of bills addressed to other utility customers in a massive privacy breach affecting 6000 customers in the ACT and NSW. ActewAGL notified the Privacy Commissioner of the breach after it became aware of the mistake on Wednesday and had set up…
Ca: Hundreds of N.W.T. health records found at Fort Simpson dump
Hilary Bird reports: An N.W.T man says he found hundreds of confidential medical records at the Fort Simpson dump. The documents contain detailed information about patients’ mental health and history of drug use, including applications to addictions treatment facilities, progress reports from those facilities, and detailed notes from one-on-one counselling sessions. The documents, many of…
Breaches have consequences: Finnish trafi safety boss resigns over privacy breach
YLE reports: The head of the Finnish Transport Safety Agency Mia Nykopp has resigned after a privacy breach that allowed details about every driver in the country to be easily accessible online. […] Since July it has been possible to view details of every driver’s license online, and to check if they have a valid license. Trafi shut…