The Information Commissioner’s Office has really been busy handing out fines. Have you seen any monetary penalties imposed by regulators on police departments here in the U.S.? No, you haven’t, right? Gloucestershire Police has been fined £80,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after sending a bulk email that identified victims of non-recent child abuse….
Category: Exposure
French Data Protection Authority Imposes a Record 250,000 € Fine to Optical Center for a Security Breach on its Website
Catherine Muyl and Marion Cavalier of Foley Hoag write: On June 7, 2018, the French Data Protection Authority (the CNIL) published a decision (issued one month earlier) in which it imposed a record 250,000 euros fine on Optical Center (which, although its name does not indicate, is a French company) for having insufficiently secured the…
UK: Hundreds of email addresses revealed in gaffe
James Oxenham reports: Hundreds of personal email addresses were sent to residents in a huge data breach by the county council. On Friday evening (June 8) West Sussex County Council sent out emails to people who commented on plans to build an incinerator in Horsham, the vast majority of whom objected. People who received the…
Na: SSC leak exposes personal info online
Shinovene Immanuel and Okeri Ngutjinazo report: Personal information of thousands of people registered with the Social Security Commission (SSC) has been leaked on the internet. The leak, extracted from the SSC website since Friday, includes private details of clients such as salaries, home addresses and copies of national documents, including ID cards and passports. The…
Facebook bug set 14 million users’ sharing settings to public
Heather Kelly reports: For a period of four days in May, about 14 million Facebook users around the world had their default sharing setting for all new posts set to public, the company revealed Thursday. The bug, which affected those users from May 18 to May 22, occurred while Facebook was testing a new feature….
Cigna Error Revealed Customer Bank and Claims Data in Asia
Zachary Tracer reports: Cigna Corp. exposed private information including bank-account details of some customers in Asia due to a system error, the health insurer said. The company told Bloomberg it accidentally sent the information to some customers and health-care providers in early May. Sabrina Cheung, a Cigna spokeswoman, said that the situation affected a small…