Keane Duncan reports: A mailroom muddle has resulted in a major data protection breach at a Teesside school. The personal details of up to 100 students at Hillsview Academy, Teesville , have ended up in the wrong hands. It involved ‘data checking forms’ – containing everything from contact details to medical history – being delivered…
Category: Exposure
UK: Council letters with personal details found dumped in bin bag on Washington street
Kali Lindsay reports: Council tax demand letters with confidential information were found dumped in a black bin bag on a street. Found near the Galleries Shopping Centre, Washington , the bag was filled with letters from Jacobs Enforcement Agents. The letters contained details of residents owing Council Tax to 18 local authorities, including Newcastle City…
Leon County Schools vendor’s data leak exposed 368,000 current and former FLVS students’ details, LCS teacher data, and more
Leon County Schools in Tallahassee, Florida has more than 34,000 students, more than 2,400 teachers, and a total of 4,300 employees. That’s a lot of students and teachers to notify when you discover that a third-party vendor’s mistake exposed their personal information for almost two years. But it’s not as much as the vendor, Florida…
In: NEET medicos details leaked
A section of students who wrote the NEET-PG 2018 examinations on January 7 has alleged that the personal data of over 22,250 students were leaked by the National Board of Examinations (NBE), which conducted the examinations. The students, who made the allegation in an e-mail sent to this newspaper, has also sent the screen…
Professor in department of health services unintentionally releases personal student information via email
Rebecca Gross reports: On Jan. 25, 50 students and 35 faculty and staff members within the Department of Health Services received an email with a spreadsheet that contained personally identifiable information (PII) of more than 9,000 people. Amy Hagopian, associate professor in Health Services at the UW, unintentionally sent the email containing the spreadsheet to…
Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services Notifies 11,000 Consumers About Breach of Protected Health Information
March 1, 2018 TOPEKA, Kan. – The Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services (KDADS) has begun to notify individual consumers about a recent incident in which personal or protected health information was disseminated to a specific group of KDADS business associates. On February 23, 2018, KDADS became aware of a potential breach of personal…