Sometimes by the time a notification appears on a state breach notification site, I’ve forgotten whether I ever reported it or not. Case in point: Capital Digestive Care in Maryland. I knew about it on February 22, and helped make the notification to them to get them to investigate it (it turned out to be…
Category: Exposure
Personal information found in dumpster behind tax prep office in Lancaster County
Brian Roche reports: The personal information of roughly two dozen people was found in an open dumpster in Lancaster County. An anonymous tip a few days ago directed 8 On Your Side consumer reporter Brian Roche to the dumpster behind a Liberty Tax Service office on Willow Street Pike that just closed last week. Read…
MAXIMUS notifies 3,029 patients after Business Ink mailing error exposes PHI
The following was the notification MAXIMUS sent out on April 17 and that they kindly provided to this site today. There was also a Spanish-language version: MAXIMUS today notified approximately 1,100 Texas families participating in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) of a printing error that resulted in some program participants receiving a…
Data Breach Leaves Bezop ICO Participants Exposed
Ian Edwards reports: An unsecured database containing the sensitive private data of over 25,000 investors in the Bezop Network ICO was recently discovered, cybersecurity firm Kromtech said in a recent report. A MongoDB database containing “full names, addresses, email addresses, encrypted passwords, wallet information, along with links to scanned passports, driver’s licenses, and other IDs”…
NZ: Vector shuts down app after privacy breach
RNZ reports: The Vector power company has shut down its outage app after thousands of customers unwittingly had their data shared. The information has been available due to a vulnerability on its outage app. The app is used so customers can report and be informed about power outages. Vector chief digital officer Nikhil Ravishankar said…
A Texas health commission employee was fired. Then she received the private information of more than 100 clients.
Marissa Evans reports: Tracy Ryans got mail — straight from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, including a box full of state assistance application forms with hundreds of people’s social security card numbers, green card certificates, billing statements, check stubs and photocopies of driver’s licenses. HHSC wasn’t supposed to have sent them. Just weeks…