How is this still happening in 2016? If you read the full article, you’ll find there was a lot of sensitive information in the folders left in the cabinet. Liam Thorpe reports: The personal details, health records and criminal histories of hundreds of vulnerable people have been left in a filing cabinet which was sold for…
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Ca: Commissioner’s investigation determines that faxing failures put sensitive mental health information at risk.
From the Information and Privacy Commissioner for Nova Scotia: HALIFAX – Three separate breaches of sensitive mental health information have led Nova Scotia’s Information and Privacy Commissioner, Catherine Tully, to call for improvements in how the health system transmits personal health information. In a new report issued today, the Office of the Information and Privacy…
Buffalo Public Schools exposed more than 4,000 records with students’ and parents’ personal information [DISPUTED]
Update: This report has been disputed. BPS claims that their IT department says “this is a dummy test page with no real information.” DataBreaches.net notes that the file was more than 100 pages, populated with information. One record on the first page did appear to be test or dummy data, but because DataBreaches.net did not…
AU: Kingston Council emails out personal details of more than 900 people
Sam Bidey reports: Kingston Council will appoint an independent investigator after an email slip up that saw the personal details of more than 2000 people released. The council sent out the bulk email on Wednesday to more than 900 maternal and child health care clients asking them to take part in an online survey, but a…
8 million GitHub profiles were leaked from GeekedIn’s MongoDB – here’s how to see yours
Troy Hunt writes: Let me make it crystal clear in the opening paragraph: this incident is not about any sort of security vulnerability on GitHub’s behalf, rather it relates to a trove of data from their site which was inappropriately scraped and then inadvertently exposed due to a vulnerability in another service. My data. Probably…
Anti-Trump Protesters Post Personal Information Of Electoral College Members
Blake Montgomery reports: The #NotMyPresident Alliance, a national anti-Donald Trump protest group, has released the personal information of dozens of Electoral College members in states that voted Republican. A spreadsheet distributed to supporters Wednesday included the personal phone numbers, addresses, religions, races, genders, and candidate preference of the electors. The document does not have a…