Trisha Jalan reports: The Andhra Pradesh government has been leaking the personal data of more than 23,000 farmers who have received subsidies from the Andhra Pradesh Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Board, reported HuffPost India. The organisation encourages the growth of Ayurvedic medicines in the state; the subsidies are offered to farmers and tribals – and…
Category: Exposure
Vodafone information glitch ‘bad privacy breach’
Susan Edmunds reports: A Vodafone mobile customer was shocked to discover he could see a stranger’s personal details when he logged into his account online. Hayden Maskell said, when he logged into My Vodafone twice this week, he could see another customer’s name, account number, phone number, bills and “detailed usage” showing who they had called….
DC health website security breach exposes nurse’s personal info including SSN
Scott Taylor reports: A nurse tells 7 On Your Side and Call For Action she was horrified to discover a government web site exposed her name, address and social security number to others… and could have done the same to 600 other nurses. Nurses just like Alexia Park can log onto the DC Department of…
Identities of thousands of Tennesseans with HIV made vulnerable by government error
Bret Kelman reports: For nine months, the confidential data just sat there, where hundreds of employees could reach it. The identities of thousands of Tennesseans with HIV or AIDS, both living and dead, were listed in a computer database kept on a server accessible to the entire staff of the Nashville Metro Public Health Department. But…
Follow-Up: MedEvolve provides notice of leaky FTP server
On May 16, DataBreaches.net reported on a breach involving MedEvolve. The breach had been reported to this site by an independent researcher, who had found that some of MedEvolve’s clients’ patient information was exposed on a public FTP server with no login required. The MedEvolve incident was included in the May statistics compiled for Protenus’s…
Singapore Taekwondo Federation fined $30,000 for leak of students’ data
ChannelNewsAsia reports: The Singapore Taekwondo Federation has been fined S$30,000 after the NRIC numbers of 782 minors were disclosed via PDF documents on its website. The issue was discovered on May 19 last year when a complainant came across PDF documents with the names and schools of students participating in the 2017 Annual Inter-School Taekwondo Championships,…