YLE reports: The head of the Finnish Transport Safety Agency Mia Nykopp has resigned after a privacy breach that allowed details about every driver in the country to be easily accessible online. […] Since July it has been possible to view details of every driver’s license online, and to check if they have a valid license. Trafi shut…
Category: Exposure
San Bernardino Community College District notifies students whose personal info was exposed in spreadsheet gaffe
Errors involving spread sheets continue to contribute to breaches. Consider this description in a notification from San Bernardino Community College District – Crafton Hills College Campus. The breach occurred on October 25: What HappenedWe recently learned that a District employee inadvertently sent a spreadsheet containing certain individuals’ information to a community college distribution list. Although the…
Amsterdam data leak identifies secret AirBnB complaints
Janene Pieters reports: A data leak affecting the municipality of Amsterdam revealed the names and addresses of residents upset about the city’s home share policy. In one case a phone number was also leaked, AT5 reports. The data was not recorded on the municipality’s website in an unrecognizable way, according to the Amsterdam broadcaster. Around…
Taxpayer ID Numbers for 120 Million Brazilians Exposed Online
Lawrence Abrams reports: A misconfigured server exposed the taxpayer identification numbers, or Cadastro de Pessoas Físicas (CPFs), for 120 million Brazilian nationals for an unknown period of time. Before a Brazilian national can perform many tasks such as opening a bank account, creating a business, paying taxes, or getting a loan, they must first apply for a Cadastro de Pessoas…
‘It cannot expect a private business to continue to clean up its errors’: Privacy czar blasts health authority for faxing patient records to computer store — again
Ragas Clan reports: Darryl Arnold would have unplugged his fax machine months ago if he didn’t need it for work. That’s because the Saskatchewan Health Authority keeps faxing him confidential patient information, most recently a five-page catheterization report that included a patient’s personal information, medical history and treatment recommendations. According to the provincial privacy czar,…
Data Breach at Florida Dispensary Highlights Vulnerabilities
Lukas Barfield reports: Last week, a Florida medical cannabis dispensary took their website offline after it was found that patient information was obtainable through the site’s basic search function. Sarasota-based AltMed is a licensed Medical Marijuana Treatment Center (MMTC) that also goes by the name MÜV. AltMed responded quickly by taking their website offline after…