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Ca: Privacy commissioner investigating Sask. premier’s office

Posted on April 30, 2015 by Dissent

Mike McKinnon reports: The office of Saskatchewan’s privacy commissioner has officially launched an investigation into an alleged privacy breach by the premier’s office. Peter Bowden, a health care aide who went public on March 30 with concerns about the Saskatoon care home he works at, accused Premier Brad Wall and his chief of operations and communications, Kathy Young,…

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Confidential information exposed over 300 times in ICANN security snafu

Posted on April 30, 2015 by Dissent

Kieren McCarthy reports: Two months after claiming there was “no indication” that confidential information was exposed in a security cock-up, domain name overseer ICANN has admitted it happened on at least 330 occasions. Following an audit of its main customer portal, the organization confirmed what we reported at the start of March: that misconfigured Salesforce software had given…

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Technical College of the Lowcountry notifies students whose SSN were exposed online by third party

Posted on April 30, 2015 by Dissent

On April 27, the Technical College of the Lowcountry in Beaufort, South Carolina, disclosed a breach involving high school students who had enrolled in a program they offered. Here is their first statement: On Thursday, April 23, 2015, the Technical College of the Lowcountry was notified of a possible data security incident involving the online publication…

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TN: Holston Valley patient info found in Bristol recycling bin; nurse resigns over error

Posted on April 29, 2015 by Dissent

Hank Hayes reports: Wellmont Health System has sent letters to patients whose protected health information was recently discovered at Steele Creek Park in Bristol, Wellmont said in a prepared release issued on Wednesday. Wellmont said the patients “were likely not” identity theft victims. Read more on Times News. Wellmont issued the following statement: Wellmont Health…

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IN: TRAI betrays privacy

Posted on April 29, 2015 by Dissent

The editors of the Deccan Chronicle in India address a breach noted earlier this week: In an appalling act of recklessness, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has compromised the privacy of over a million Internet users of the country by publishing online all the responses of their consultation paper on Net neutrality. Either the bureaucrats running…

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More than 1 year after breach, data show up for sale on darknet

Posted on April 28, 2015 by Dissent

Brian Krebs reports that he received a tip about physicians’ data up for sale on a darknet marketplace called AlphaBay One of the databases for sale was a large text file called, “Tenet Health Hilton Medical Center” that contained the name, address, Social Security number and other sensitive information on dozens of physicians across the country. Did you ever…

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