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DC health website security breach exposes nurse’s personal info including SSN

Posted on July 11, 2018 by Dissent

Scott Taylor reports: A nurse tells 7 On Your Side and Call For Action she was horrified to discover a government web site exposed her name, address and social security number to others… and could have done the same to 600 other nurses. Nurses just like Alexia Park can log onto the DC Department of…

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Identities of thousands of Tennesseans with HIV made vulnerable by government error

Posted on July 11, 2018 by Dissent

Bret Kelman reports: For nine months, the confidential data just sat there, where hundreds of employees could reach it. The identities of thousands of Tennesseans with HIV or AIDS, both living and dead, were listed in a computer database kept on a server accessible to the entire staff of the Nashville Metro Public Health Department. But…

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Follow-Up: MedEvolve provides notice of leaky FTP server

Posted on July 10, 2018 by Dissent

On May 16, DataBreaches.net reported on a breach involving MedEvolve. The breach had been reported to this site by an independent researcher, who had found that some of MedEvolve’s clients’ patient information was exposed on a public FTP server with no login required. The MedEvolve incident was included in the May statistics compiled for Protenus’s…

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Singapore Taekwondo Federation fined $30,000 for leak of students’ data

Posted on July 10, 2018 by Dissent

ChannelNewsAsia reports: The Singapore Taekwondo Federation has been fined S$30,000 after the NRIC numbers of 782 minors were disclosed via PDF documents on its website. The issue was discovered on May 19 last year when a complainant came across PDF documents with the names and schools of students participating in the 2017 Annual Inter-School Taekwondo Championships,…

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Police probe after adoption agency’s files found strewn on Tel Aviv street

Posted on July 7, 2018 by Dissent

Times of Israel reports: A Tel Aviv resident was shocked to find thousands of highly confidential documents from a leading Israeli adoption agency strewn on a sidewalk in the city. The files from the Taf adoption agency listed names of hundreds of adoptive parents and children between the years 1999-2016, and in most cases included…

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Only researchers accessed the exposed 211 call logs – Los Angeles County

Posted on July 6, 2018 by Dissent

There is a follow-up to an incident involving exposed Los Angeles County 211 call logs. The misconfiguration had been discovered by UpGuard and was reported in May. Now the County has submitted its report to the California Attorney General’s Office.  It states, in part: Our investigation determined that the incident was caused by an employee…

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