Emma D’Agostino reports: MORE than two years have passed since Radius Disability Services went into administration. Yet, documents containing sensitive information about those who worked for and used the service remain at the former Havlin Street Site. Copies of a volunteer’s driver’s licence, bank statement, and birth certificate are among the papers strewn on the floor…
Category: Exposure
NZTA again forced to contact the Privacy Commissioner after another privacy breach
Jason Walls reports: The New Zealand Transport Agency is embroiled in yet another privacy saga, after accidentally revealing the private email addresses of almost 900 people in a mass traffic update email. This comes not long after the agency was forced to notify the Privacy Commissioner after it lost an unencrypted USB drive containing the…
Outdated software left municipal worker information exposed in 200 towns
Anne Wallace Allen reports: An outdated software that is used by about 200 Vermont municipalities and the Vermont Tax Department has long contained flaws that exposed sensitive information including Social Security numbers, according to an IT consultant and the software company’s founder. New England Municipal Resource Center, or NEMRC, is software that cities and towns…
Email Attachment Goof Exposed Personal Info of 4,557 Cal Poly Pomona Students
Victoria Gonzalez reports: Human error caused a massive leak of personal information of all active students in the College of Science. On Jan. 29, the campus community was notified via email of the leak. The incident occurred Jan. 28 when a university employee within the Computer Science Department intended to send an email containing advising…
Yet another Aadhaar-related leak?
Zack Whittaker reports: A lapse in security has led to the leaking of over a hundred thousand Aadhaar numbers, TechCrunch can reveal. One of the web systems used to record attendance of government workers for the Indian state of Jharkhand was left exposed and without a password as far back as 2014, allowing anyone access…
Ca: RCMP breached a sexual assault complainant’s personal information
Catharine Tunney reports: Someone went to the RCMP with an allegation of sexual assault — only to see their most closely-guarded private information being leaked. The force is now apologizing after the wrong label was applied to an outgoing package containing three operational files dealing with sexual assaults. Those files included a complainant’s name, date of birth, address,…