Schools re-opened on Long Island right after Labor Day, and look, we already have a privacy breach. Elana Glowatz reports: Port Jefferson school district Superintendent Ken Bossert assured the community on Tuesday that an error that sent state test scores to the wrong households was a one-time occurrence. Many middle school parents visited the district…
Category: Exposure
5 million ‘compromised’ Google accounts leaked
RT reports: A database of what appears to be some 5 million login and password pairs for Google accounts has been leaked to a Russian cyber security internet forum. It follows similar leaks of account data for popular Russian web services. The text file containing the alleged compromised accounts data was published late on Tuesday on the…
UK: Isle of Scilly Council ordered to review procedures following data incidents
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has ordered the Council of the Isle of Scilly to implement new data protection policies and training after two data breaches involving the disclosure of personal data. The first breach occurred in June 2013 when an attachment inadvertently included in an email revealed personal data…
Earthquake data privacy breach ‘avoidable’
Charles Anderson reports: A review of the Earthquake Commission’s handling of the privacy breach that revealed the details of all Canterbury claimants found the error could have been avoided. The breach might not have happened if EQC had learned lessons from a similar breach at another government agency, the review said. In early 2013, 83,000…
AL: Mobile County License Commission: claims filed
walakelliejones reports: Fox10 News has discovered an investigation is underway to find out whether or not Mobile County License Commissioner Kim Hastie violated federal law by allegedly giving city residents’ personal information to a political campaign. Two Mobilians, Anitra Diamond and Lebarron Yates, have filed claims against Mobile County officials. In their claims, they state…
WI: Personal information on city website
Holy screw-up, Batman! Shaun Dinck reports: Personal information from hundreds of property owners was available on the City of Beloit’s website, and the city doesn’t know for sure how long it was online. The information available was in the Document Center on the city’s website, and included Social Security numbers, dates of birth and possible…