Massachusetts Attorney General had a busy day yesterday announcing enforcement actions over data breaches that had been disclosed in 2015. In addition to her announcement about the McLean Hospital settlement, she also announced a second settlement stemming from another 2015 breach that had also been reported by DataBreaches.net at the time. A California company that…
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AU: Big W customer data leaked due to printer repair mishap
Matthew Elmas reports: A Big W worker accidentally leaked the personal information of 32 people earlier this year when repairing a printer for a customer, Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) disclosures reveal. The Woolworths-owned discount department store has admitted to an extraordinary instance of human error where an employee enclosed confidential information within a…
UK: Well pharmacy ‘truly sorry’ after leaking personal data of 24,000 employees
Thomas Cox reports: Well Pharmacy has said it is “truly sorry” after personal data of 24,099 employees and locums was accidentally leaked via email last week. A document – sent as an email attachment to an undisclosed number of Well locums last week (December 11) – included individuals’ names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and…
Data Leak Exposes Australian Psychologists’ Home Addresses
Jeremy Kirk reports: A large health insurer in Western Australia inadvertently shared the home addresses of some psychologists to a web-based appointment booking service, the West Australian reported Wednesday. The health insurer, HBF, passed names and addresses for psychologists to Whitecoat, a company that develops an online booking and patient review mobile application and website. The details…
IE: Health body apologizes for email gaffe exposing email addresses of 200 job applicants
A statutory health body has apologised for a data breach in which the email addresses of unsuccessful applicants to a job were mistakenly shared. In an email informing individuals that their application had been unsuccessful, the email addresses of about 200 other applicants were shared. The email, seen by TheJournal.ie, was sent by the Pre-Hospital Emergency…
Popular avatar app Boomoji exposed millions of users’ contact lists and location data
Zack Whittaker reports: Popular animated avatar creator app Boomoji, with more than five million users across the world, exposed the personal data of its entire user base after it failed to put passwords on two of its internet-facing databases. The China-based app developer left the ElasticSearch databases online without passwords — a U.S.-based database for its international…