Lewis Berrill reports: SENSITIVE information about pupils was leaked to parents and students following a data breach at a secondary school. Information such as free school meal status, address, deprivation status, exam dispensation and special educational needs of Year 11 children at Greeensward Academy in Hockley was accidentally leaked by a teacher. The information was…
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St. Lucie’s County Drug Screening Lab notifying more than 14,500 people after discovering multi-year misconfiguration of web portal
St. Lucie’s County Drug Screening Lab offers a variety of types of drug screening St. Lucie, Martin, Okeechobee and Indian River Counties. Juvenile & Adult Drug Screens Court Related Drug Screens Parent Visitation Screens (parent tests before & after visitation!) Random Drug Screens Pre-employment Drug Screens Employee Drug Screens (reasonable suspicion) Student, Cadet & Athlete Screens Teenager Screens (test your teen to…
Br: Acesso Soluções de Pagamento customers had Pix key data leaked
Abhishek Pratap reports: The Central Bank (BC) reported this Friday (21) that about 160,100 customers of Acesso Soluções de Pagamento had Pix key data leaked. It is not the first time that BC has reported data leakage. Since the launch of the instant payments system in November 2020, this is the second time. The institution…
NYU Langone notified 1,123 patients of privacy issue due to mailing vendor error
NYU Langone Health notified patients the week of January 4, 2022, about a potential privacy incident resulting in misdirected, limited patient information. The incident occurred on or about November 12, 2021, when a communication was sent via U.S. mail to inform patients of a planned relocation of an NYU Langone Health oncology surgeon originally based…
Thousands of Indians’ Covid-19 related data leaked online (Updated to include NHA’s denial that it came from Co-WIN)
PTI reports: Personal data of thousands of people in India has been leaked from a government server which includes their name, mobile number, address and Covid test result, and these information can be now be accessed through an online search. The leaked data has been put on sale on Raid Forums website where a cyber…
South Africa’s new traffic fine system exposed personal data
Jan Vermeulen reports: An online interface set up for the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (Aarto) system exposed the personal information of every South African who received an infringement notice under the new law. Personal data contained in the leak included full names, ID numbers, residential or business addresses, phone numbers, vehicle registration information,…