Eric Mark reports: An email mistakenly sent by Luzerne County Community College to staff and faculty members on Wednesday has raised privacy concerns about personal information contained in an attachment to the message. The email, sent Wednesday afternoon to 264 full-time LCCC employees, concerned revisions to W-2 forms for faculty and staff members. However, the…
Category: Exposure
UK: Morrisons denies liability as data leak case nears court for more than 100 Peterborough employees
The Peterborough Telegraph reports: Lawyers acting on behalf of several thousand Morrisons’ employees, including more than 100 from Peterborough, say they will “vigorously contest” the retailer’s assertion that it wasn’t to blame for a data leak which led to their personal details being posted on the internet. Bank, salary and National Insurance details of almost…
Wal-Mart says some pharmacy client data was visible to others online (updated)
Nathan Layne reports: Wal-Mart Stores Inc said on Wednesday that prescription history and other basic information on a few thousand online U.S. pharmacy customers may have been visible to other users during a four-day stretch last month due to a coding mistake. “We had a software coding error for a 72-hour period from February 15…
UK: Confidential records of 37 Derriford Hospital patients discarded in Truro charity clothing bank
WBGayle reports: Dozens of people’s medical records were found discarded in a charity clothing bank in Truro. Patients receiving care at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth say they were left “shocked” and “disgusted” after learning their records had been put in the bin by a former member of staff at the hospital. The documents contained each patient’s…
SG: No other user data compromised after app glitch, Singtel clarifies
Clifford Lee reports A technical glitch led to the personal details, including the residential address, of a single Singtel customer to be revealed to other customers when they logged-in to their My Singtel mobile application on Monday night (Feb 29), sparking fears that more data had been compromised. Read more on Today.
Update: Second arrest in Jackson State U. data breach (updated)
Jasmina Alston reports that a second student has now been arrested in connection with the theft – and creation of a searchable database of – 40,000 Jacksonville State University student and faculty data. According to the university, suspects obtained the data by using log in information for a management database used by an institutional office. This is still…