Colin Wood reports: North Carolina state government experienced two data breaches, according to reports released Tuesday. Security research firm MacKeeper reported a statewide data breach that occurred last month exposing internal documents spread across the offices, divisions and departments of Administration, Health and Human Services, Medical Assistance, Cultural Resources, Public Safety, State Controller, State Budget…
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Data leak exposes details of 450,000 lottery subscribers
DutchNews.nl reports: Nearly half a million subscribers to charity lotteries have been warned that their personal details may have been compromised by a data leak. The BankGiro Loterij, Postcode Loterij and VriendenLoterij took out newspaper adverts alerting players to a security vulnerability that could give hackers access to the names, addresses and e-mail addresses of…
Government admits your Aadhaar data has been leaked
Yatish Yadav reports: If you have an Aadhaar Card and if your bank accounts and other sensitive information are linked to it, chances are that your data is no longer secure. For the first time, the Modi government has officially acknowledged that personal identity of individuals, including Aadhaar number and other sensitive information, has been…
Data breach as details about MPs’ staff published in error
BBC reports: Confidential personal information about 3,000 MPs’ staff and their salaries has been mistakenly published by the expenses watchdog. IPSA said staff names and details about their working and holiday patterns was available for about four hours on an old version of its website on Thursday. It insisted that no addresses, bank account details…
Former West Fargo Police Chief’s Personal Information Leaked with Personnel Records
TJ Nelson reports: West Fargo is providing its former police chief with credit monitoring. A city spokesperson says Michael Reitan alerted them that some of his personal information was released in documents given to media organizations. The spokesperson says city staff mistakenly missed the information for redaction when preparing the files. Read more on…
Mecklenburg County, NC: 1,200 patients impacted by gaffe in responding to public records request
Joe Bruno and Blake Hanson report: County officials mistakenly gave information to two media outlets Monday in response to public records requests about the Health Department’s failure to notify women of abnormal Pap smear results. Channel 9 immediately notified county officials upon discovering the information on a compact disc. Officials said the information did not…