Parents of children at Hopkins Road and Salem Church Road Elementary Schools say their kids came home with sensitive data belonging to other students and they now want to know who has access to their kid’s private data. An 8News investigation found 130 students at the two schools brought home information forms filled with personal…
Category: Exposure
Texas Comptroller Ducks Deposition Over Data Breach
Jess Davis reports: A Texas appeals court on Thursday blocked a civil rights advocacy group from deposing the state comptroller about a 2010 data breach that published online personal information about millions of Texans, saying the agency has governmental immunity. Read more on Law360.com (sub. required).
UK: Aberdeen City Council fined £100,000 after sensitive information exposed on the Internet
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has announced that a monetary penalty notice has been served on Aberdeen City Council after inadequate homeworking arrangements led to 39 pages of personal data being uploaded onto the internet by a Council employee. The council has been fined £100,000. The incident occurred in November 2011, after a home working employee…
OH: Personal documents found in desk could put former Talawanda High School students at risk
Bob Ratterman reports: Talawanda School District officials are offering a year of credit protection to former Talawanda High School students whose personal information may have been left in a desk sold at auction Aug. 3. A person who purchased a desk at the sale notified the district that it contained student information, including emergency medical…
Hill AFB employee personal info improperly transmitted
Mitch Shaw reports: More than 500 Hill Air Force Base employees had sensitive personal information compromised after another base employee improperly transmitted the information to an unprotected email address. In early July, a base administrative employee was working with data that contained the names and Social Security numbers of hundreds of base employees. The employee,…
UK: Uni in Data Protection Breach
Jo Barrows reports on an e-mail gaffe involving University of York: The Department of Admissions have been left red-faced after circulating an email containing private details of a postgraduate application to every student on the applicant’s course. The email included a forwarded message from the applicant who was appealing against her rejection from a Masters…