Emma Spears reports: Reports are surfacing that Canadian licensed producer RedeCan is facing a privacy breach after a mass email to patients revealed their personal information to other patients. Although officials from RedeCan have not commented publicly, an email from the LP to a patient impacted by the breach indicates the company has self-reported the…
Category: Exposure
MA: Release of employees’ partial Social Security numbers troubles Worcester teachers, School Committee members
Scott O’Connell reports: Teachers and School Committee members are looking for answers from the School Department in the wake of the district’s release of personal information for thousands of school employees to a testing company last year. According to Worcester Superintendent Maureen Binienda, the district’s IT department opted to use the last four digits of…
Names, banking information accidentally shared in emails to University of Waterloo students
CBC News reports: Personal information including names, student numbers, addresses and banking information of some University of Waterloo students was accidentally sent to a mailing list of 2,000 students, the school says. The emails went out Wednesday evening. Of the emails sent to the mailing list, 15 contained some private information like names and student numbers,…
UK: Gateshead Council data breaches share health and debt details
BBC reports: A council has admitted a series of data breaches, including uploading personal medical details to an online forum. Gateshead Council also sent letters containing private information to the wrong addresses and sent a debtor a list of other people who owed it money. The 19 breaches happened in the ten months after new…
That marketing email database that exposed 809 million contact records? Maybe make that two-plus BILLION. (UPDATED: No, don’t. Those claims are not supported)
Update 1: Vinny Troia contacted me to question DynaRisk’s claims. He informs this site that he has all four databases, has all of the data that is in the Dynarisk screenshots, and there is nowheres near 2 billion records. So it seems that this questions is unsettled as yet. DataBreaches.net will be contacting Dynarisk. Update…
AIA Singapore agents’ personal information exposed in apparent data breach
Gabriel Olano reports: AIA Singapore is taking action after the discovery of a potential data breach in which the personal information of 225 of its current and former agents, as well as their family members, was found to be publicly accessible. The insurer is currently running a check on all its systems after it became…