There’s an update to a workplace medical privacy breach involving members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). I’ve been following the case on this blog since July, 2013. In December 2014, the privacy commissioner found that the RCMP had violated the employees’ privacy by turning over their records to a psychologist. In October 2015, there was a…
Category: Exposure
Tanzania Telecommunications Company Limited (TTCL) denies breach (UPDATED)
Yesterday, I noted a report on Softpedia claiming that Anonymous had hacked and leaked data from Tanzania Telecommunications Company Limited. It appears the company is denying that they’ve had any breach. Athuman Mtulya reports: However, TTCL Public Relations Manager Nicodemus Mushi told The Citizen yesterday that they had not traced any breach of their systems and had…
Quotemehappy? No, I’m furious: Insurance site loses customer details
Alexander J. Martin reports: Aviva-owned online-only insurance business Quotemehappy.com has informed customers that there has been a data breach at its website. Quotemehappy announced that it had “recently” lost a “small number” of customers’ details, comprising “vehicle registration, email address, mobile number, landline number and address.” An email sent around to customers today, which was…
Hacking Team data hacked and leaked online still confidential: Singapore Court
K.C. Vijayan reports: The High Court has ruled in a novel case that confidential documents hacked from a computer and posted online remain confidential despite being in the public domain. The court found in the test case that e-mails between lawyer and client leaked online by a third party but obtained by the defence was…
UK: University of Greenwich data breach exposed sensitive student info online
Okay, there are breaches involving student information and then there are really bad breaches involving sensitive student info. This is one of the latter. The BBC reports that details about hundreds of London-based research students were exposed online by the University of Greenwich. Students’ names, addresses, dates of birth, mobile phone numbers and signatures were…
Privacy Claim Against Plastic Surgeon Advances
There’s a follow-up to a lawsuit previously noted on this site. Jeff D. Gorman reports: An appeals panel properly revived claims against a plastic surgeon who shared a woman’s before-and-after photos with Fox News, Utah’s highest court ruled. When Dr. Renato Saltz performed breast augmentation and abdominoplasty on her in 2006, Conilyn Judge signed a…