Hannah Rodger reports: Low income families who applied for help to buy school uniforms have had their children’s details and personal information leaked by a local authority. More than 30 people who applied to Glasgow City council for it’s school clothing grant have had their full applications sent to third parties. Children’s’ names, which school…
Category: Exposure
Protest data breaches threaten HK’s hub ambitions
The Macau Daily Times reports: Hong Kong’s ambitions to be an international data-center hub are a potential casualty of the city’s mass protests. […] Last month, dozens of protesters were arrested after being treated in the emergency ward of a public hospital following battles with riot police. The city’s Hospital Authority subsequently denied leaking patient…
Ca: ‘We feel terrible’: Vancouver tour company apologizes as privacy commissioner looks into breach
Penny Daflos reports: A tour company that organizes school field trips for B.C. students is apologizing for dumping personal information in the recycling bin of a sorting room where hundreds of Yaletown residents and others had access. Peter Meiszner, who lives in the residential area of the mixed-use building on Cambie Street, was stunned to…
A data breach forced this family to move home and change their names
Charlie Osborne reports on one of those cases where a data breach results in such a serious risk of harm or trouble that people have to move or significantly change their lives: As reported by the Hackney Gazette, a family in the area adopted a child and the details of who they were and where…
AU: National Australia Bank Says Data Breached on 13,000 Customers
Russell Ward reports: National Australia Bank Ltd. has begun contacting about 13,000 customers whose personal information was breached in violation of its data security policies. Data including names, dates of birth and contact details were uploaded to the servers of two data service companies without authorization, the Melbourne-based lender said Friday in a statement. Read…
Brazilian banking users exposed by 250GB data leak
Angelica Mari reports: An unprotected server belonging to a Brazilian financial services provider has exposed a massive batch of data from customers of various local banks, security experts have found. The vulnerability has been detected by security researchers Data Group and the total file size of sensitive personal information available in the public domain is…