From the U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO): NHS Highland reprimanded for a “serious” data breach amongst those accessing HIV services ICO calls for higher standards when protecting data of people living with HIV Service providers could be fined or reprimanded for exposing sensitive data The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a reprimand to NHS Highland for…
Category: Exposure
ChatGPT Suffers First Data Breach, Exposes Personal Information
Dom Nicastro reports: OpenAI’s ChatGPT has suffered its first major personal data breach. The breach came during a March 20 outage and exposed payment-related and other personal information of 1.2% of the ChatGPT Plus subscribers who were active during a specific nine-hour window, according to a blog post by OpenAI Friday, March 24. “In the hours before we…
UK: Braintree GP surgery warns of data breach after ‘confidential’ information blows across roads
Matt Lee reports: A GP surgery has admitted to a data breach after “confidential” information was blown into the local area whilst being obtained by waste collectors. Mount Chambers Surgery in Braintree says they have reported themselves to the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) over the breach. The GP surgery, on Coggeshall Road in Braintree, looks…
No need to hack when 682,000 medical records are leaking, Monday edition
On March 15, DataBreaches was contacted by a researcher who had found a “bunch of medical docs.” The files included patient intake evaluations, laboratory results, medical records requests, insurance information forms, treatment or consultation notes, and other files you would expect to see in a patient’s records. The patients all appeared to be in Texas,…
Twitter takes legal action after source code leaked online
Dan Milmo reports: Twitter has revealed some of its source code has been released online and the social media platform owned by Elon Musk is taking legal action to identify the leaker. According to a court filing made on Friday, Twitter is demanding that GitHub, a code-sharing service, identifies who released on the platform parts…
Kroger notifies more than 82,000 Postal Prescription Service patients of mistaken information sharing
On March 10, Kroger’s Healthy Options program, Postal Prescription Services (PPS), issued a statement about a privacy breach. According to their statement, some PPS patients’ names and email addresses were erroneously shared with the grocery side of Kroger’s business due to an internal error. Kroger doesn’t state when the breach first occurred, but they discovered…