Julia Parrish reports: The Edmonton Police Service has apologized for a security breach that saw personal information of some staff and volunteers sent to a man in the United States. David Henderson, a former CBS News correspondent, who now works as a crisis and strategic communications advisor, told CTV News he’s trying to draw attention to…
Category: Exposure
Privacy breach at U. of Toronto
Alex McKeen reports: On October 29, some students received e-mails from the University of Toronto enrollment services indicating that they were awarded funding through University of Toronto Advanced Planning for Students (UTAPS) only to find that they had also been sent 179 files containing sensitive information that was not theirs. […] The 179 files that…
Email addresses of 4,000 New Brunswickers released by Skillsoft in cc: gaffe
CBC News reports that Skillsoft, a company that develops and manages professional courses the government offers online through SkillsNB, exposed more than 4,000 New Brunswickers’ email addresses by accidentally using the cc: field in an email, instead of the bcc: field.
AL: Records containing minor’s sensitive information were publicly available through Birmingham City Schools website
Madison Underwood reports that hundreds of records containing minor’s sensitive information – names, birthdates, phone numbers and more – were publically available online at a website operated by Birmingham City Schools. Read more on AL.com. Would this be a good time to remind everyone that Alabama is one of only a few states that does not…
Orange Romania fined with RON 10,000 by data protection body
Telecompaper reports: Orange Romania was fined with RON 10,000 by data protection authorities for failing to comply with the obligations concerning the application of security measures and keeping the confidentiality of end-users’ personal phone data, according to local paper Hotnews.ro. The operator was sanctioned after a customer sent a complaint saying that his replacement phone…
UK: Sheffield Council lost document of children’s names – authority’s data breaches exposed
Alex Evans reports: Confidential data has been lost, misplaced or leaked by Sheffield Council 22 times since February 2012, The Star can reveal today. The information includes eight letters sent to the wrong address and a document which contained children’s names going missing. In one breach, a spreadsheet naming 1,729 people who received payments from…