There is a highly misleading news report on Stuff today. Permit DataBreaches to set the record straight by quoting some statements from the news story and responding. Liz McDonald reports: Personal information about as many as 20,000 members of the public has been stolen in a data breach at Christchurch City Council’s He Puna Taimoana hot pools….
Category: Exposure
PA: Ringgold student data leak revealed
Katherine Mansfield reports: Some student data was leaked via email last week, Ringgold School District announced Monday. “The safety and security of our students is one of our top priorities at Ringgold School District,” Randall Skrinjorich, superintendent, said in a statement. “Upon learning about the accidental release of student data at one of our schools,…
LabMD gets another shot at defamation claim against ‘extortionate’ infosec biz
Jessica Lyons Hardcastle reports: LabMD, the embattled and now defunct cancer-testing company, will get another chance at suing security firm Tiversa for defamation following an appeals court ruling. The testing laboratory has long alleged that: Tiversa illegally obtained a 1,178-page computer file containing confidential data on more than 9,000 LabMD patients back in 2008; lied…
A huge Chinese database of faces and vehicle license plates spilled online
Zack Whittaker reports: While its contents might seem unremarkable for China, where facial recognition is routine and state surveillance is ubiquitous, the sheer size of the exposed database is staggering. At its peak the database held over 800 million records, representing one of the biggest known data security lapses of the year by scale, second…
Akasa Air suffers data breach
PTI reports: Akasa Air has suffered data breach resulting in access of user information by unauthorised individuals. The airline, which started operations on August 7, has apologised to its customers and has “self-reported the incident” to CERT-In, according to a communication. Read more at The Telegraph India.
UK: Officials’ personal info published online by government lawyers in ‘regrettable’ data leak
Tevye Markson reports: The Government Legal Department has launched an investigation after a data leak in which the names of civil servants claiming expenses was published online. Documents showing officials’ names were published on GOV.UK accidentally and stayed up for a week. The dossier showed credit-card spend at the department of more than £500 between…