Another breach involving sensitive information. Sophie Smith reports: The Victorian Education Department has said it is “deeply sorry” for mistakenly publishing private and sensitive information about homeschooled children on its website. Confidential information contained in submissions made to the department was published when the documents were uploaded without redactions on Friday. Details that identified students who…
Category: Exposure
Tullamore Hospital patient’s information sent to wrong person after data blunder
If you’re going to misdirect a fax containing patient info, at least try not to misdirect it to the data protection commissioner’s fax number! Justin Kelly reports: A data breach at Tullamore Hospital is among 212 cases revealed today, the Irish Independent have reported. 212 data protection breaches, where patient’s private information was misused or mishandled,…
Leak of diabetic patients’ data highlights risks of giving info to telemarketers
Personal and health information of 918,000 vulnerable seniors was exposed on the Internet for months by a software developer working on a project. No one would have even known about it if the leak hadn’t been found by a guy with “too much time on his hands.” Before you give your personal or health insurance…
Raleigh DMV office throws personal information in trash
Ed Crump reports: The North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles is warning customers who visited one office in Raleigh of a possible personal information breach after records were thrown in the trash instead of being shredded as they’re supposed to be. It happened at the office on Spring Forest Road. Officials said the records of…
Privacy, what? Bengaluru police leaks 46,000 phone numbers on Twitter
IndiaToday reports: …… Bengaluru police goofed up too when it came to handling privacy concerns of Bengaluru citizens. The police department posted phone numbers of thousands of citizens on their Twitter handle (@BCPCR) who called 100 and complained against harassment, quarrels, and gambling etc. The police posted over 46,000 tweets online since April 2015 sharing…
Scottrade Bank data breach exposes 20,000 customer records
Steve Ragan reports: Scottrade Bank, a subsidiary of Scottrade Financial Services, Inc., recently secured a MSSQL database containing sensitive information on at least 20,000 customers that was inadvertently left exposed to the public. The database was discovered by MacKeeper researcher Chris Vickery on March 31, when he was searching for random phrases on the domain…