Tamara Elliott reports: An investigation has been ordered, following a major privacy breach at a Calgary school. Parent Jaret Kneller said he was shocked when he opened an e-mail sent by the new principal at George P. Vanier School in the northeast community of Winston Heights-Mountview. Instead of the introductory letter that was supposed to…
Category: Exposure
Orange sanctioned by French regulator after customer data breach
Orange has received a public warning from the French privacy watchdog Cnil after personal details of more than a million of its customers were leaked on the internet. Orange notified Cnil of the problem in April, blaming a technical fault at one of its marketing suppliers. Almost 1.3 million customers were affected, with their name,…
Oops. Data leak not fixed as Topeka school leaders thought
Last week, I posted a privacy breach involving student data in Topeka Unified School District 501 over on PogoWasRight. It seems I missed an update, but happily, @VERISDB caught it and tweeted a link. Celia Llopis-Jepsen reports: Confidential student data continued to be available this week to unauthorized people at Topeka Unified School District 501,…
Comcast Data Breach Leaks Thousands of Unlisted Phone Numbers, Threatening Customers’ Privacy
Adi Kamdar of EFF writes: The longer my information is out there, the worse the issue gets, yet still no action. I have paid for unpublishing my information for years as I testified in a murder trial. Now, my wife, children, and I are [a]ll in danger; and I have nowhere to turn. Four years…
AU: Federal privacy authorities called in over Centrelink breach
Noel Towell reports: Federal privacy authorities have been called in after Centrelink left revealing personal and financial details of clients lying around at a suburban railway station last month. Documents containing details of 23 clients’ full financial disclosures, including bank account numbers and details of property holdings, superannuation and investments, were left by an official…
Sensitive student records found in dumpster outside Denver middle school
Jon Bowman reports: DENVER — In Park Hill … the new Smiley Middle School Campus is getting ready for classes to begin, but amid all the cleaning up, someone threw out boxes of student records with all types of personal information, including birth certificates, which were supposed to be stored. When FOX31 Denver showed up…