Juha Saarinen reports: Tens of thousands of scanned NSW driver’s licenses and completed tolling notice statutory declarations were left exposed on an open Amazon Web Services storage instance, but Transport for NSW doesn’t know how the sensitive personal data ended up in the cloud. The open AWS S3 bucket was found by Bob Diachenko of…
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Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health notification of privacy breach
August 25 – Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health is informing community members of a recent breach of privacy that affected an information dashboard that was used to display information about influenza cases in our community. This dashboard was posted on our public website between January 2020 and May 2020. The dashboard contained information on individuals with lab…
Primary Indian ticket vendor suffers crippling data breach
Jim Wilson writes: One of India’s most popular travel booking hubs was left exposed without adequate security measures, and subsequently, suffered a significant data breach that exposed all production server information and led to the loss of over 43GB of data. The affected Elastic search server was left publicly exposed without password protection or encryption…
TX: Dozens of boxes of medical records found at Odessa Recycling Center
Joshua Skinner reports: Over two dozen boxes of old medical records containing personal patient information were found at the Odessa Recycling Center over the weekend. How old medical records from West Texas Orthopedics came to be sitting out in the open at the recycling center this past weekend isn’t clear, nor is who’s to blame….
NZ: Managed isolation facility security guard suspended over social media privacy breach
The guard uploaded a photo which showed the names of 27 returnees. Video news coverage on 1News.
UK: Man finds sensitive patient data outside Caithness General
The Northern Times reports: A man who was passing by Caithness General Hospital in Wick claims to have found a document containing “highly sensitive medical information” about patients. The member of the public, who wishes to remain anonymous, said he found the folded A4-size piece of paper lying on the road near the gate lodge…