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Employee and locum details in Well data leak up to seven years old

Posted on February 6, 2019 by Dissent

Isabel Finch reports: Some of the details of employees and locums accidentally leaked via email by Well Pharmacy in December may be up to seven years old, the multiple has told C+D. In December, a document – which included names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and some payroll numbers of 24,099 employees and locums –…

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AU: Confidential documents discovered at former Radius Disability Services Havlin Street Site

Posted on February 6, 2019 by Dissent

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…

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NZTA again forced to contact the Privacy Commissioner after another privacy breach

Posted on February 6, 2019 by Dissent

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…

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Outdated software left municipal worker information exposed in 200 towns

Posted on February 5, 2019 by Dissent

Anne Wallace Allen reports: An outdated software that is used by about 200 Vermont municipalities and the Vermont Tax Department has long contained flaws that exposed sensitive information including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…

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Email Attachment Goof Exposed Personal Info of 4,557 Cal Poly Pomona Students

Posted on February 5, 2019 by Dissent

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…

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Yet another Aadhaar-related leak?

Posted on February 1, 2019 by Dissent

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…

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