It seems like only one year ago that I was posting a news story about a string of data protection breaches by employees at the Leicester City Council. Oh wait, it was a year ago. Now it appears that there is yet another breach. Stowe Family Law LLP reports: An unnamed person at Leicester City…
Category: Exposure
Cybersecurity firm, cybersecure thyself?
Cue Peter, Paul, and Mary singing, “When will they ever learn? Oh, when will they ever learn? Oh, when will they ever learn?” The best place to store your private keys of your production environment is probably NOT a public Amazon AWS S3 bucket. This is a top 500 “Cybersecurity” company btw. 🙂 pic.twitter.com/8Vu7mGpwox —…
FL: Records from defunct finance firm exposed after company closes and leaves them behind
Vic Micolucci reports on yet another case where records with personally identifiable information are left behind – and then disposed of improperly – when a business closes: Hundreds of pages of personal information, including credit card numbers and Social Security numbers, were found in a Jacksonville dumpster behind a business on San Juan Avenue and Blanding…
Hundreds left vulnerable to hackers after Johnson and Johnson data blunder
Aaron Rogan reports: The home addresses of hundreds of Irish people have been published online in a data breach by a pharmaceutical company. A cybersecurity expert said the error may leave people vulnerable to hackers as the company also shared email addresses that may be linked to other online accounts. As part of a promotion…
Sask. Health Authority sends more private health info to computer shop, says frustrated owner
This is still happening? It shouldn’t be. At what point should they be required to abandon using fax? Alicia Bridges of CBC reports: The Saskatchewan Health Authority has again faxed private medical information about a patient to a North Battleford computer shop, according to the frustrated owner of the business. Darryl Arnold says his company fax…
Dog-Walking App Exposed Home Addresses and Lockbox Codes
Oh good grief. You can’t even walk dogs without risking a breach of your personal information, it seems. My friend Sheila Kaplan sent this one along, as reported by Rolfe Winkler and Robert McMillan: Wag Labs Inc., the startup behind a popular dog-walking smartphone app, inadvertently exposed webpages showing customer information including addresses and lockbox codes that…