Posted yesterday by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada: Service provider inadvertently discloses email addresses of nearly 300 customers in mass email Incident A customer of a service provider received a routine email from the service provider advising her of when her seasonal service would be reconnected. However, she noticed that the email…
Category: Exposure
Quest Diagnostics notifies employees of breach after email attachment error (UPDATE)
Quest Diagnostics is notifying some employees that some of their personal information was inadvertently attached to an email sent outside the company. The email gaffe occurred on November 17, when a report containing employee information was attached to an email sent to two individuals with whom the firm has a business relationship. The error was reported…
UK: Huge data leak sees personal details of 15,000 Hackney residents published online
Fiona Parker reports: A massive blunder has seen the sensitive personal details of 15,000 Hackney residents – including address, sexuality and rent accounts – leaked online. Bungling council officers have also revealed the age and housing benefit entitlement of Hackney Homes tenants and leaseholders in the botched Freedom of Information request, which was inadvertently published…
Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel On Email Hacks: “Our Work Has Been Violated And Exposed”
Colleen Taylor reports: Snapchat co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel today released a powerful statement about privacy, a day after the latest batch of emails released in the massive Sony Pictures hack exposed a number of Snapchat’s company secrets. On Tuesday afternoon, the hacker group that calls itself the “Guardians of Peace” released the contents of the email inbox of Sony…
Scottish Widows data protection error ‘costs customer £50k’
Tessa Norman reports: A Scottish Widows customer claims the provider has cost him £50,000 after it breached the Data Protection Act by sending details of his pension to his ex-wife. The provider has offered the customer, who cannot be named for legal reasons, £500 in compensation for sending the information to an unauthorised address. But…
VT: DCF email inadvertently shares foster parents’ personal info
Email errors are still not a thing of the past. Shelby Cashman reports: A registered Department for Children and Families foster parent who wants to remain anonymous says she feels violated. Her personal information, including Social Security number, was inadvertently emailed to 34 other foster parents by the Newport family services division of DCF. She is not…