Daniel Smith reports: Private email addresses of 103 beneficiaries have been made public due to a mistake by a Work and Income caseworker. They were carbon copied (CC) into an email promoting free fruit and nuts from the Christchurch City Council, rather than blind carbon copied (BCC), which would have concealed them from each other. Read more…
Category: Exposure
UK: Activist raided by police after downloading London property firm’s ‘confidential’ meeting minutes from Google Search
Gareth Corfield reports: A man who viewed documents online for a controversial London property development and shared them on social media was raided by police after developers claimed there had been a break-in to their systems. The raid by four Metropolitan Police constables took place after Southwark campaigner Robert Hutchinson was reportedly accused of illegally…
NC: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools email gaffe exposes medical info on 3,000 students
From the no-need-to-hack-if-it’s-leaking dept., WBTV reports: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools sent an email to hundreds of parents that included person and medical information of nearly 3,000 students. The CMS email was to confirm all students who were enrolled in the After School Enrichment Program (ASEP). It was sent out the afternoon of August 6 and went to…
UK: NHS Highland apologizes after data security breach
Tom Ramage reports: Letters inviting patients at NHS Highland for their second dose of Covid vaccine were produced by NHS Highland Public Health carrying information relating to other patients. A spokesperson has explained: “These letters each contain the name and address of the patient along with the date, a time slot and a location they…
Data leak affects about 3,000 NYC students and 100 employees, officials confirm
Pooja Salhotra reports: Personal information, including academic records and biographical data, of about 3,000 New York City public school students and 100 education department staff members was inadvertently shared more widely than intended, education department officials confirmed on Thursday. At least one student within the public school system managed to access a Google Drive that…
AU: Optus under investigation for White Pages privacy breach
Tom Biggs reports: Regulators have opened an investigation into Optus for potential breaches of the Privacy Act, following an incident in which the telco accidentally sent off thousands of customers’ contact details to be published in the White Pages directory against their wishes. In October 2019 Optus contacted almost 50,000 customers to inform them of the privacy…