Cooper Sullivan reports: On the morning of April 14, the University Counseling Center sent out a feedback survey to 860 email addresses — some students, faculty, staff and 68 accounts unaffiliated with the university — in which the recipient list was unencrypted and visible to all who had access to the email. About 10 minutes…
Category: Exposure
AU: National Australia Bank repays customers $687k for 2019 data breach
James Frost reports: National Australia Bank has revealed it paid $686,878 in compensation to customers exposed in a 2019 data breach after the personal account details of more than 10,000 customers were uploaded to a website similar to Google Sheets. The bank said it provided thousands of customers with a one-off payment while a smaller…
Swinburne University confirms over 5,000 individuals affected in data breach
Asha Barbaschow reports: Swinburne University of Technology has confirmed personal information on staff, students, and external parties had inadvertently made its way into the wild. It said it was advised last month that information of around 5,200 Swinburne staff and 100 Swinburne students was available on the internet. Read more on ZDNet.
Data leak exposes cops’ donations to Kyle Rittenhouse following Kenosha shooting
Meaghan Ellis reports: A data breach of a Christian crowdfunding website has uncovered donations police officers and public officials made to Kyle Rittenhouse, the Illinois teen accused of murdering two Black Lives Matter protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, following the officer-involved shooting of Jacob Blake. According to The Guardian, the transparency group known as Distributed Denial of…
Ca: Privacy Breach at Algoma Public Health
Dan Gray reports: Some residents of Sault Ste. Marie have been notified by Algoma Public Health that their personal information had been breached. In a copy of the letter obtained by Saultonline staff, APH admits to having a staff member inadvertently send a compromising e-mail “to another health care service provider.” The incident occurred June…
Data breach of thousands of Chattanooga Library card owners revealed
Karen Aguilar reports: The Chattanooga Library said the private information of around 5,000 library cardholders had been exposed online since October 2020, an IT team they work with catching the mistake last week. “We will go to the mat to protect somebody’s privacy we absolutely will, and so for this to happen is really, really…