Lyle Adriano reports: The city of Calgary is facing a $92.9 million lawsuit for allegedly breaching the privacy rights of its employees. The suit, filed Tuesday, alleged a privacy breach in June 2016. The document claims that a city staffer sent an email to an employee of another Alberta municipality which contained the personal information…
Category: Exposure
Private data of more than 1,100 NFL players, agents exposed
Max Greenwood reports on another find by Kromtech Security: The personal data of more than 1,100 NFL players and agents was exposed as the result of a misconfigured online database, a cybersecurity company has revealed. Bob Diachenko, the chief communications officer for Kromtech Alliance, wrote in a blog post on the company’s website Monday that researchers…
Aetna offers immediate relief program to members affected by HIV disclosure incident
As this site noted in August, health insurer Aetna had a privacy breach when almost 12,000 members’ HIV status was unintentionally disclosed in mailing envelope windows. This week, Aetna announced it was offering immediate assistance to members affected by the breach. It’s unusual to see a breached entity offer such immediate assistance, and I think…
Graton casino ‘data breach’ potentially reveals some patrons’ Social Security numbers
Martin Espinoza reports: An undisclosed number of patrons at Graton Resort and Casino are being notified by mail of what casino officials said was an inadvertent email distribution of personal information such as names, addresses and Social Security numbers of patrons. One Santa Rosa resident who declined to be interviewed or identified received the “Notice…
Some NC A&T students’ personal information leaked in ‘security incident’
Nick Sturdivant and Carly Hildyard report: The personal information of 1,581 students at North Carolina A&T State University was leaked following a “data security incident.” It happened on Tuesday when a faculty member within the College of Business and Economics accidentally emailed a file containing personal information to a group of students. Read more on…
FI: THL: Personal data and lab results of more than 6,000 people were exposed online for months
YLE reports: A data leak earlier this year saw the personal data and even laboratory test results of some 6,000 patients posted online, said the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) on Tuesday. The data ombudsman informed THL of the leak in August. The institute then removed the data from two online services where…