Andy Marso reports: A contractor that administers Missouri Medicaid plans says it accidentally exposed the personal health information of 19,570 children. A vice president for WellCare Health Plans Inc. said in a letter to The Star that the company learned on July 25 that a “mailing error” caused reminders about well-child visits for the company’s…
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NY: Arc of Erie County fined $200,000 for online security breach
Jonathan D. Epstein has an update to a breach originally reported in March of this year. The Arc of Erie County – a nonprofit social services agency formally known as Heritage Centers – will pay a $200,000 fine to the state, review its policies and analyze its potential electronic security risks after a breach of…
Aadhaar details of over 60k students on APCCE website
Anupama N reports: Vijayawada: The officials of Commissionerate of College Education, Andhra Pradesh, have put the privacy of thousands of students at risk by publishing their Aadhaar card details on the website. In a major goof up by the officials, details of 64,807 students have been put up on the website, for the viewing of…
Spyware Company Leaves ‘Terabytes’ of Selfies, Text Messages, and Location Data Exposed Online
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: A company that markets cell phone spyware to parents and employers left the data of thousands of its customers—and the information of the people they were monitoring—unprotected online. The data exposed included selfies, text messages, audio recordings, contacts, location, hashed passwords and logins, Facebook messages, among others, according to a security researcher…
Babysitting app suffers ‘temporary data breach’ of 93,000 users
John E. Dunn reports: Babysitting-booking app Sitter “temporarily” exposed the personal data of 93,000 account holders, according to a researcher who recently discovered the trove of data using the Shodan Internet of Things (IoT) search engine. In a LinkedIn post, Bob Diachenko explains how he found the 2GB MongoDB database on August 13, which contained…
AU: Melbourne student health records posted online in ‘appalling’ privacy breach
The Australian Associated Press reports: The personal records of hundreds of Melbourne high school students have been mistakenly published, sparking an investigation into an “appalling” privacy breach. The Victoria education minister, James Merlino, said his department would launch an inquiry into the breach at Strathmore secondary college in the city’s north-west. Read more on The…