Radio New Zealand reports: Material is emerging on the internet which lists personal data, including thousands of email addresses which appear to belong to New Zealanders. Customer data from the dating site for married people who want to cheat on their spouse was reportedly leaked on the “dark web”, meaning it is accessible only via…
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British Show Jumping Association signs undertaking after email gaffe exposes 14,152 members’ information
Sometimes the only ways we find out about breaches in the U.K. are if someone files under Freedom of Information or the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has them sign an undertaking. Today, we learn about another breach from an undertaking involving British Show Jumping Association. The ICO was informed in December 2014 that a file…
AshleyMadison data dumped (Update 3)
AS YOU WERE (UPDATE 3): Maybe we shouldn’t believe AshleyMadison’s denials. Despite AshleyMadison’s statement to Brian Krebs last night, a number of professionals who have been looking into the data dump believe it is authentic. The Guardian was able to verify the details on one of their journalists who had signed up for the site as…
London’s new online appeals service suffers data protection breach
Deniz Huseyin reports: London Tribunals’ online appeals service had to be temporarily shut down last month after a data protection flaw was discovered by a parking campaigner. The shutdown happened 10 days after the online service switched to a new system when Northgate Public Services replaced Capita as the London Tribunals contractor, appointed by London…
Colorado notifies Medicaid patients of HIPAA breach
Denver, CO – The Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (the Department) announced today that protected health information was unintentionally disclosed in a recent mailing. Letters were mailed between May 25 and July 5, 2015 and contained protected health information (PHI) of individuals from 1,622 households. The problem was identified on July 1st when…
Illinois Dept. of Corrections says personal data of at least 1,000 employees accidentally released in response to FOIA request
Leeann Shelton reports another privacy breach due to a response to a Freedom of Information request: More than 1,000 Social Security numbers belonging to Illinois Department of Corrections employees were inadvertently released in a response to a Freedom of Information Act request. The affected employees work at the Lawrence and Dixon correctional centers, Acting IDOC…