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…
Category: Exposure
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…
Dozens of patients’ medical records found lying in Melbourne street
Julia Medew reports: A hospital is being investigated for breaching the privacy of dozens of patients after medical records revealing a “swollen penis” and mental illnesses among other things, were found in a Coburg street. The Australian Information and Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim is investigating how the records of 31 patients were removed from the John…
Financial firm’s documents found in Bangor alley
Allan Preston reports: Hundreds of discarded financial documents have been found scattered in a Bangor alleyway. The resident who discovered them said he suspected many contained personal information. However, the finance company that owns the documents, NIIB, said no customer information was in the papers, and that it was investigating the issue. Read more on…
Personally Identifiable Information Found on 40 Percent of Used Devices in Largest Study To-Date
The headline pretty much says it all. The study was conducted by an association with a self-serving interest, but here’s the press release: The National Association for Information Destruction (NAID ) announced today the results of the largest study to date of the presence of personally identifiable information (PII) on electronic devices sold on the…