From the ICO: The Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration (SCRA) breached the Data Protection Act by failing to keep sensitive information about the welfare of young people secure in two separate incidents, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The first incident happened in September last year when nine case files were mistakenly left in a…
Category: Exposure
Email Misdirected in Switch to Gmail
Julia L. Ryan reports: During the transfer of Harvard @college email accounts to new Google hosted accounts, a handful of students received emails from individuals who share their surname, raising privacy concerns for some who chose to switch email systems. Thousands of students have successfully accessed their new Google hosted @college email accounts, and fewer…
UK: Hays Discloses RBS Pay Deals in Email Gaffe
Mark Kleinman reports: The recruitment specialist Hays is at the centre of an embarrassing gaffe today after one of its employees distributed an email disclosing the remuneration of thousands of contractors working for the state-backed Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). I have learnt that a Hays employee yesterday inadvertently forwarded a message showing the pay…
Lincoln Financial Group notifies 91,763 enrollees that programming error may have exposed their Social Security Numbers
For the second time in as many months, Lincoln National Life Insurance Company and Lincoln Life & Annuity Company of New York have notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of a security breach. By letter dated August 15, the company’s attorneys reported that due to a programming error that existed in the database’s search…
(follow-up) TX Comptroller’s breach: few sign up for credit monitoring
Barry Harrell has a follow-up on the Texas Comptroller’s breach that affected 3.5 million Texans. I was interested to read that 100,000 people signed up for the offered credit protection monitoring, which is less than 3% of those offered it – at a cost to the state of $600,480. The state had originally offered those…
Confidential Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services documents found blowing in the street; office manager and area director suspended
Robb Hays reports: A large trash bag filled with copies of dozens of social security cards, bank records, birth certificates and other confidential documents was discovered by a passerby on a downtown Baton Rouge street and delivered to the 9NEWS I-TEAM. The paperwork appears to be connected to applicants for various forms of public assistance….