Bloomberg reports: BlackRock Inc., the world’s largest asset manager, inadvertently posted confidential information about thousands of financial adviser clients on its website. The data appeared in three spreadsheets, linked on one of the New York-based company’s web pages dedicated to its iShares exchange-traded funds. The documents included names and email addresses of financial advisers who buy…
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Knoxville employees’ information exposed online for almost one year
WVLT reports: Employees with the City of Knoxville received a notification on Thursday that their private information, including their Social Security numbers, may have been revealed after data was ‘inadvertently’ posted on a procurement website. According to a city spokesperson, last year, personal information of employees who were employed as of Feb. 1, 2018, was…
PHI of 1,002 Lebanon VA Medical Center Patients Exposed in Email Error
HIPAA Journal reports: Lebanon VA Medical Center in Pennsylvania has discovered the protected health information of hundreds of elderly patients has been impermissibly disclosed to a family member of a veteran. In November 2018, a member of staff at Lebanon VA Medical Center emailed a document to a family member of a veteran who was…
Ca: Woman says childhood sexual trauma details leaked in privacy breach
Jack Julian reports on a truly horrific leak: A Dartmouth, N.S., woman whose personal information was exposed in the province’s worst-ever privacy breach says the experience has left her angry and hurt. “I felt violated,” the woman said. CBC News is shielding the woman’s identity because the files leaked by the province’s online freedom of information portal…
NASA internal app leaked employee emails, project names
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A NASA web app leaked details such as employee usernames, names, email addresses, and project names, ZDNet has learned today from bug hunter Avinash Jain. The exposure originated from one of NASA’s Jira installations, a web app that most companies use for tracking projects or internal bugs and issues. In a report…
Personal Information Taken From Tax Filing Office Found In North Texas Dumpster
CBS DFW reports: A woman in Mansfield got a call from a man who said he found her personal information in a dumpster. The documents were found in a Mansfield industrial office complex about ten miles from the Liberty Tax Alta Mesa office in Fort Worth where they were filed. The files included bank account…