Times of Israel reports: A Tel Aviv resident was shocked to find thousands of highly confidential documents from a leading Israeli adoption agency strewn on a sidewalk in the city. The files from the Taf adoption agency listed names of hundreds of adoptive parents and children between the years 1999-2016, and in most cases included…
Category: Exposure
Only researchers accessed the exposed 211 call logs – Los Angeles County
There is a follow-up to an incident involving exposed Los Angeles County 211 call logs. The misconfiguration had been discovered by UpGuard and was reported in May. Now the County has submitted its report to the California Attorney General’s Office. It states, in part: Our investigation determined that the incident was caused by an employee…
NZ: Privacy breach at Disputes Tribunal
Ugh. Shane Cowlishaw reports: A sensitive case file that was misplaced at a Night and Day convenience store left a woman “understandably upset” after it was sent to the man she was locked in a dispute with. Shane Cowlishaw reports. Details of the privacy breach were revealed in a briefing to Justice Minister Andrew Little,…
UK: Secret police dossier of paedophiles and victims found dumped in a skip
Okay, this is awful in terms of what might have happened. Kudos to the passerby who spotted it and gave it to the media to make sure that this wasn’t covered up. Alex Matthews reports: A secret police dossier containing personal details of paedophiles and their victims has been found dumped in a street in…
Ca: Sunshine list screw-up: privacy breached for 2nd year in a row
Peter Cowan reports: For the second year in a row the provincial government’s salary disclosure includes names and salaries that shouldn’t have been released. The list, which is often called the “sunshine list” reveals the names and salary information for anyone making more than $100,000. Read more on CBC.
NY: North Colonie Central School District notifies retirees of data security breach
North Colonie Central School District in New York is notifying some retirees that their personal information was inadvertently exposed on the internet for a period of approximately six weeks. The breach occurred when a package of information the district made available to vendors to provide quotations on insurance services inadvertently failed to redact the names,…