Jonathan Shorman and Hunter Woodall report: Partial Social Security numbers for nearly 1,000 Kansas voters were released publicly by Florida after Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s office provided the data as part of a program that looks for double voter registrations. Kobach called the disclosure unfortunate but defended the program, called Crosscheck, as key to…
Category: Exposure
Home Office admits it sent asylum seeker’s personal info to the state he was fleeing
From the D’oh dept., Rebecca Hill reports: An asylum seeker has won £15,500 from the UK’s Home Office after it blabbed confidential information about his persecution in his home country – to authorities in the state. In a poorly thought-through attempt to verify the authenticity of a set of documents about the asylum seeker, the…
Corovan Corporation & Employer Leasing notifying 1,500 California residents of data breach
It was one of those deja vu experiences I’m increasingly likely to have these days. I read a breach notification template that involved health insurance information, made a note of it in my compilation worksheet for Protenus, and was going about my other work when I read another notification template that was identical – except…
UK: ICO investigates Age UK after two data breaches
Kirsty Weakley writes: Age UK lost the personal details for current and former staff in two separate data breaches at the end of last year and has reported itself to the Information Commissioner’s Office. The charity has written to current and former employees to tell them that there were two incidents at the end of…
Florida Department of State notifies 945 of breach involving the last four digits of their SSN
IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING INADVERTENT RELEASE OF LIMITED CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION DOS providing free credit monitoring services for 945 affected individuals TALLAHASSEE – In January 2013, The Florida Department of State, Division of Elections temporarily participated in a project pilot in an effort to facilitate validation of information between states. In September 2017, the last four digits…
Aetna Customers Get $17 Million In HIV Privacy settlement
WTVA reports: After thousands of customers’ HIV statuses were revealed in mailings last year, a federal class-action lawsuit against health care company Aetna has reached a $17 million settlement. The lawsuit was filed in August after some 12,000 Aetna customers nationwide received letters mailed in July that accidentally revealed their HIV status through the windows…