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Defunct undergrad law society site exposed hundreds of SSNs

Posted on June 4, 2016 by Dissent

Penn State University recently reported an incident to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that involves a now-defunct club. According to their report, the university was notified on April 13 that a historical document uploaded to the Undergraduate Law Society‘s web site was a spreadsheet that contained two fields – SSN and DOB – that…

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NM: UNM Hospital notifying patients of data breach

Posted on June 4, 2016 by Dissent

KRQE reports a breach involving patients data from University of New Mexico Hospital: UNM Hospital is notifying more than 2,800 patients of a data breach. They say that limited medical information may have been mailed to a wrong address due to a technical issue with the hospital’s billing systems. Information like the names of patients, their…

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FBI raid on dental IT technician is already chilling disclosures

Posted on June 1, 2016 by Dissent

Over on the Daily Dot this morning, I have a follow-up to my earlier report on an FBI raid on Justin Shafer. There was a lot of anger towards the FBI and Patterson Dental in response to the raid, and I pulled together some of my favorite comments or responses from around the Internet.  But more importantly,…

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Ca: Rexall hands out patient’s confidential health records to wrong person

Posted on June 1, 2016 by Dissent

CityNews reports: When Maureen Pittman picked up her prescription from a Mississauga Rexall, she didn’t expect to be bringing home another patient’s entire confidential medication history.   [… The 6-page] medication history contains the patient’s name, address, phone number, Ontario Health Insurance number, what medications were prescribed and what they are generally used for. Once Pittman realized…

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RU: Opposition PARNAS party cancels primaries over massive leak of voters’ personal data

Posted on May 31, 2016 by Dissent

Oh great – another voter database leak. RT reports: The Russian Party of People’s Freedom, PARNAS, has had to suspend its internet primaries after a file with personal details of all participants was placed on the party’s website. Top party officials blame unidentified hackers for the privacy breach. PARNAS was holding primaries in order to…

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Danish Authorities Investigate OkCupid Incident

Posted on May 31, 2016 by Dissent

Joseph Cox reports the follow-up to a breach that I covered on PogoWasRight.org. The breach involved a Danish grad student dumping OkCupid users’ personal and sensitive info in a data set for “research” purposes, claiming it was “public” data. They had neither sought nor obtained consent to scrape the user database, and although they did not include…

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