California’s Department of Business Oversight is notifying some investment advisers and dealer-brokers that due to a redaction error on the department’s part, their Social Security numbers were sent to public records requestors. The breach, which occurred on January 5, was not discovered until March 11, and the department does not indicate how it first became aware…
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Florida Department of State confirms data breach
Florida’s Department of State has now issued a press release about a breach first reported on this site yesterday. Here’s their statement: The Florida Division of Elections has learned of the inadvertent release of non-confidential voter information that occurred in March following the fulfillment of voter registration record extract requests. The Division of Elections has confirmed…
FL: Hundreds of files with personal information left in Lee County dumpster
Adam Wright reports that more than a dozen boxes of files containing Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, and credit card information were found in a dumpster behind a warehouse in Lee County. Schaefer says the files in the boxes belong to the company Coral Palm Auto Sales in Fort Myers. The business in question…
Florida Department of State exposes non-confidential voter information (updated)
Update: The Florida Department of State issued a statement on March 31 confirming the breach. That statement appears elsewhere on this site. Under the language of their statute, addresses are not considered “confidential” information, and the state has asked DataBreaches.net to make clear that this did not involve confidential information, as “confidential” is defined by…
Personal details of world leaders accidentally revealed by G20 organizers
And once again, a freedom of information request uncovers a breach. Paul Farrell reports: The personal details of world leaders at the last G20 summit were accidentally disclosed by the Australian immigration department, which did not consider it necessary to inform those world leaders of the privacy breach. The Guardian can reveal an employee of the agency…
UK: Serious Fraud Office fined after “astounding” data protection breach
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined the Serious Fraud Office £180,000 after a witness in a serious fraud, bribery and corruption investigation was mistakenly sent evidence relating to 64 other people involved in the case. The Serious Fraud Office’s investigation focused on allegations that senior executives at BAE Systems had received payments, including two properties worth…