Fenit Nirappil reports: The D.C. Department of Health has warned hundreds of nurses that their personal information was inadvertently exposed in the online licensing portal and is offering them one year of credit-monitoring services. A nurse navigating the nursing board’s online portal somehow ended up on a nonpublic portion of a database that included the…
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Brit doctors surgery fined £35k for leaving medical records just lying around for more than 18 months
Paul Kunert reports: Bayswater Medical Centre (BMC) in London is licking its wounds after taking a not insignificant punch to the wallet for discarding highly sensitive medical information in an empty building for a year and a half. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today the data included medical records, prescriptions and patient identifiable medicine….
SimplyWell (Viverae) notifying Lincoln Electric System employees of of personal health info breach
It’s been a while since I’ve noticed a third-party breach of a wellness vendor, but here we go, it seems. SimplyWell (“Viverae”) works with Healthbreak, who provides wellness services to the firm in question. SimplyWell, Inc. (“SimplyWell”) recently discovered a data privacy incident that may affect the privacy of certain Lincoln Electric System (“LES”) employees’…
Another data breach for South Africa – 934,000 passwords and IDs exposed
IOL reports: Another major leak has surfaced for South Africans. A database containing sensitive personal data that came from a traffic fine platform has been leaked online, according to security researcher Troy Hunt and iAfrikan Digital founder Tefo Mohapi. The information contained in this leak includes names, ID numbers, e-mail addresses, and passwords stored in plain text from…
Teen phone monitoring app leaked thousands of user passwords
Zack Whittaker reports: At least one server used by an app for parents to monitor their teenagers’ phone activity has leaked tens of thousands of accounts of both parents and children. The mobile app, TeenSafe, bills itself as a “secure” monitoring app for iOS and Android, which lets parents view their child’s text messages and…
Los Angeles County 211 exposed call logs with details
Another day, another leak involving sensitive information. From the UpGuard team: The UpGuard Cyber Risk Team can now disclose that sensitive data from the Los Angeles County 211 service, a nonprofit assistance organization described on their website as “the central source for providing information and referrals for all health and human services in LA County,” was…