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…
Category: Exposure
MD: Mailing error exposes 350 patients’ bills to other patients
Here’s one you won’t see on HHS’s public breach tool, because it’s less than 500 patients. Harford Surgical Associates in Bel Air, Maryland notified the Maryland Attorney General’s Office that due to a mailing error on October 16, 2014, patients received up to three other patients’ billing statements. The statements included the patients’ names, addresses, telephone…
Optus rapped for three privacy breaches
As you read the following, keep in mind that Australia has just required ISPs to retain non-content data for two years. Josh Taylor reports: Optus has committed to undertake an independent review of its information security systems after Australian Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim investigated three separate security incidents. The first incident related to the company’s…
University of Oregon archivists who released unvetted records will not be returning to their positions
Ah, another breach as a result of a response to a records request. Laura Frazier reports: The University of Oregon professor who received a trove of unredacted presidential records said he regrets that the incident has led to the discipline of the employees who released the documents. In December the University Archives fulfilled a records request…
UK: Former Countess of Chester Hospital nurse banned for confidentiality breach
ChesterFirst reports: A former sexual health adviser at the Countess of Chester Hospital has been suspended from nursing after he disclosed details of a patient’s illness to a third party. Mark Henry Newman, 54, formerly of Acorn Court, Upton, has been suspended for nine months by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) after he breached…
CNA-Qatar salary, data breach in 2011 affected hundreds
Rob Antle reports: The College of the North Atlantic campus in Qatar (CNA-Q) discovered two serious privacy breaches in the span of two weeks in late 2011, including one that saw the salary information of hundreds of employees inadvertently revealed. That’s according to government records obtained through access to information by CBC Investigates. Read more…