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Ca: Personal information in 100,000 IT requests compromised in Simon Fraser University database misconfiguration

Posted on June 23, 2016 by Dissent

Corneilia Naylor reports that Simon Fraser University has self-disclosed that they left a lot of personal information on an unsecured database. Good for them for discovering it and disclosing it, although of course we wish it had never happened or had been discovered sooner. On Jan. 27, 2016, SFU IT services inadvertently copied incidents, inquiries and…

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UK: Confidential records of mentally ill patients found in cabinet bought on eBay

Posted on June 23, 2016 by Dissent

Another totally inexcusable and shameful privacy breach. Personal documents containing confidential details of mentally ill patients of the former Wolverhampton NHS Primary Care Trust were found in a filing cabinet bought on eBay. The cabinet contained 60 pages of documents including details of patients’ history of sexual abuse and suicide attempts. Read more on Express &…

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NYS: Inadvertent release to adoptee of birth mother’s identity leads to reforms

Posted on June 22, 2016 by Dissent

Another “small” privacy breach with big impact. In this case, the big impact was an overhaul of the state’s system. From their press release: New York State Inspector General Catherine Leahy Scott yesterday released a report of an investigation that found the State Department of Health’s (“DOH”) complex and antiquated storage of vital records led to…

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Information on 154 million voters exposed in the cloud – again. (Updated)

Posted on June 22, 2016 by Dissent

MacKeeper Security Researcher Chris Vickery has found yet another misconfigured database with U.S. voter information and profiles. This one has 154 million records. See my report about it over on the Daily Dot. One day maybe our government or state attorneys general will start actually enforcing some data security on those who create these massive…

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Hacker leaks over 260 internal Democratic Party files on Hillary Clinton

Posted on June 21, 2016 by Dissent

From the I-doubt-this-will-help-her-campaign dept., Jason Murdock reports: The hacker responsible for breaching the computer networks of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) has released a fresh trove of 261 internal files, donor lists and memos – largely focused on presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. The data dump, leaked by a hacker dubbed “Guccifer 2.0”, consists of a…

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Ca: 77K accounts of Financial Giant, State Farm, leaked due to DAC Group Hack

Posted on June 20, 2016 by Dissent

Ryan de Souza reports: DAC Group, a Toronto-based digital & content marketing agency has suffered a security breach on their server resulting in data theft of 93,000 customer accounts — In normal circumstances it would be just another security breach but what makes this breach exceptional is the 77,000 leaked accounts from Bloomington, Illinois-based State Farm,…

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