Tom Capon reports: Grindr’s security issues are once again in the spotlight as a third party app pinpointed users’ exact location. Despite constant reassurances from the app about the difficulties of exploiting their location technology, the latest security breach revealed how malicious parties can locate users. Discovered by blog Queer Europe, they used a third-party…
Category: Exposure
PA: Independence Blue Cross and subsidiaries notifying members whose PHI was mistakenly exposed on public web site
John George reports: Independence Blue Cross and its subsidiaries AmeriHealth HMO and AmeriHealth Insurance Co. of New Jersey have alerted certain members of a recent incident involving a potential privacy issue related to protected health information. […] “We quickly launched an investigation to determine the nature and scope of this incident, working with a leading…
Data of almost 3,000 patients experiencing emergency symptoms exposed online by MedCall Advisors
Have you ever wished you could just pick up a phone and get an emergency room physician on the phone to advise you in an emergency? Well, it seems that you can. According to their website, North Carolina-based Medcall Advisors is a “Workers Compensation and Healthcare Solutions” provider offering a comprehensive tele-emergent care medical service…
AU: NAPLAN results privacy breach at elite Melbourne school
3AW reports: NAPLAN results at an elite Melbourne school have been sent to the wrong parents. 3AW Drive was alerted to the issue this week. Methodist Ladies’ College sent a letter to parents, informing them they shouldn’t open the envelope because it could contain the results of another student. Read more on 3AW.
BCBS of Rhode Island blames vendor for breach of member information
G. Wayne Miller reports: Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island has disclosed a breach of personal health-care information affecting 1,567 people that the insurer blames on an unnamed vendor responsible for sending benefits explanations, also known as health-care services summaries, to members. In a media release Tuesday afternoon, the insurer said that some…
Mt. Diablo School District notifies parents of data breach
And while we mutter and grumble about #EdTech glomming up way too much personal and sensitive information on students, let’s not forget that good old-fashioned email errors are still causing problems. In today’s episode, the Mt. Diablo School District reports that an error on August 8 was caught after 200 of 650 emails were sent…