Things may have just gotten worse for Filipino voters whose details were hacked and exposed in a massive breach recently. Lara Tan reports: A website called wehaveyourdata.com claimed it carries the sensitive data — such as full name, complete address, and passport number — of at least 70 million registered Filipino voters. Last March, the website of…
Category: Exposure
UK: Kent police force fined for passing on personal details in domestic abuse case
The Information Commissioner’s Office issued the following statement today: A police force has been fined after sensitive personal details of a woman who accused her partner of domestic abuse were passed to the suspect. Kent Police handed the solicitor the entire contents of the complainant’s mobile phone. The force has now been fined £80,000 for what an…
AU: Gold Coast Health apologizes and retrains staff after patient notes found lying in street
Ryan Keen reports: Gold Coast Health is retraining staff on how to handle patient records after a local truckie’s surgical report and personal information was found in the street. The blunder, which prompted truck driver Martin James to lodge a complaint with Gold Coast Health’s privacy officer, has resulted in fallout for a hospital registrar…
Ca: Children’s aid families’ names posted online
Laurie Monsebraaten reports: Police are investigating an unprecedented security breach at a Brockville-area children’s aid society after an electronic file containing the names of 285 families involved with Family and Children’s Services of Lanark, Leeds and Grenville was made available on Facebook. The breach was discovered Monday at 1:42 p.m. after both a client and a…
Ca: UPEI privacy breach leaks personal data of 700 people
Krystalle Ramlakhan reports: About 700 people who sought summer accommodations through the University of Prince Edward Island website had their personal information leaked in a privacy breach last month. Personal information from submissions dating back to October 2014 were posted to a upei.ca web page, and could be found through a general web search. Read more…
IE: Personal details of almost 2,000 civil servants incorrectly ‘leaked’ – PSEU conference
Caroline Crawford reports: The personal details of almost 2,000 civil servants, including their pps numbers and detail of leave taken, was incorrectly “leaked” in a major data breach, the PSEU conference has heard. The incident which happened in the past week occurred when a spreadsheet containing the personal details of 1,914 civil servants was inadvertently…