Daisy Graham-Brown reports: Police in Northern Ireland have been involved in a data breach ‘of monumental proportions’ affecting thousands of officers and civilian staff. The major breach reportedly involves names, ranks and other personal data from employees of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), but does not involve the officers’ and civilians’ private addresses, it is…
Category: Exposure
NZ privacy commissioner learnt about ‘serious’ breach from the media
Jonathan Killick reports: The Privacy Commissioner is “frustrated” to have learnt about a “serious” privacy breach through the media, relating to the email addresses of 147 firearms owners being spilled. In July, it was reported that the email addresses of licence holders were to sent to each other after a list of addresses was pasted in the…
School Accreditation Organization Data Breach Exposed Sensitive Information on Students, Parents, and Teachers Online
Seen on WebsitePlanet: Cybersecurity Researcher, Jeremiah Fowler, discovered and reported to WebsitePlanet a non-password protected database that contained 680k records. Upon further investigation, it was identified that these records were related to educational institutions. Documents inside the database suggested that it belonged to the Southern Association of Independent Schools, Inc (SAIS). In my many years as…
VirusTotal: We’re sorry someone fat-fingered and exposed 5,600 users
Jessica Lyons Hardcastle reports: VirusTotal today issued a mea culpa, saying a blunder earlier this week by one of its staff exposed information belonging to 5,600 customers, including the email addresses of US Cyber Command, FBI, and NSA employees. The unintentional leak was due to the layer-eight problem; human error. On June 29, an employee accidentally uploaded…
Hundreds of children’s medical documents found along Cape Coral streets
Justin Kase and Rachel Murphy report: Hundreds of children’s private records were littered along the streets of Cape Coral. Police picked up most of the documents after they were reported Friday. Read more at WINK News. From the transcript and the video of the news, it appears that these are likely student health records held…
Two more breaches involving email gaffes: one by a NZ hospital, one by Fortinet
First, we have this “human error” mistake with email to report today. Hamish McNeilly reports: An email containing the names of vulnerable children was mistakenly sent to other parents and guardians, prompting an apology from Te Whatu Ora Southern. Dozens of parents and guardians received the email on Tuesday from the Vera Haywood Centre, a…