KCRA has the media exclusive on a web exposure breach affecting 14,000 In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) providers: The list includes Medi-Cal providers in 25 California counties, including Amador, Calaveras, Colusa, Nevada, Placer, Sutter, Tuolumne and Yuba. In an exclusive interview with KCRA 3, state officials from the Department of Health Care Services admitted to posting…
Category: Exposure
Pathetic, pathetic, pathetic
And yet again: A resident contacted Target 11 saying he had discovered boxes of documents from a non-profit development agency in the West End of Pittsburgh. He said the documents, including names and Social Security numbers, were sitting right out in the open next to a dumpster on a public sidewalk. “They contained people’s Social Security numbers, row…
FL: Documents containing private data found on Hudson roadside
Garbage bags full of people’s personal information, such as copies of driver’s licenses and social security numbers, dumped on the side of the road. The papers appear to come from Rock Bottom Auto Sales on State Route 52. Read more on TBO.
EE: Company Fined for Private Data Leak
Estonian Public Broadcasting reports: The Tallinn database management company Andmevara was fined 3,000 euros by the Data Protection Inspectorate for the potential leak of 126,379 people’s personal data in February. Capital residents who had applied for land tax exemption had their names, ID numbers, living addresses, property sizes and the amount of the tax exception…
AZ: Public printing of court documents halted due to security breach
Scott Orr reports: Citing a security breach in a software update, Sandra K. Markham, clerk of Yavapai County Superior Court, on Monday ordered that the ability to print documents from public-access court document computer terminals be shut down. “One of my clerks was being an investigator, and she just tried to see if something he…
Curb your enthusiasm!
Maybe one of the mantras of data protection should be “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” In 2009, Yankees fans enthusiastically threw papers out of the window during the team’s World Series celebratory parade through the Canyon of Heroes. The unshredded papers included files from A.L. Sarroff, Goldman Sachs, and the Bronx Supreme Court, as well as medical test…