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…
Category: Exposure
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…
Ca: Regina Public investigated after teacher breached students’ privacy
Here is the argument for more education and training. Ashley Martin reports: The Regina Public School Division is addressing policy gaps after a teacher uploaded more than 2,000 documents, many containing students’ information, to a public website. Some of the information was online for 15 months before the privacy breach was reported to the Office…
Ca: 2,551 people affected by Guelph privacy breach
CTV reports: Personal information belonging to thousands of people was accidentally shared with a lawyer involved in legal action against the City of Guelph. The issue first came to light last February, when city officials said “files not relevant to the litigation that had been delayed, but not permanently erased” had been on a file…
A tale of three leaks, Wednesday edition
On December 6, DataBreaches.net was contacted by researchers who requested help notifying two entities that they were exposing health information due to misconfigured AWS S3 buckets. They would turn out to be a delight to deal with, unlike a third entity that was also leaking information from a misconfigured S3 bucket. So let’s start with…