Mike Faher reports: A survey snafu last week led to the disclosure of some Vermont Health Connect and Medicaid customers’ email addresses, state officials said Thursday. In total, 127 people sent emails – some inadvertently and some not – to other health insurance consumers amid confusion about an online survey issued July 20 through the Department…
Category: Exposure
Telstra customer stumbles across contact details of 66,000 fellow customers
Elise Baker reports: A 63-year-old layman, who admits he isn’t a “tech-savvy person”, has somehow been able to access a Telstra database containing the contact details of their customers. Robert Irvine has told 9NEWS he had an issue with his email and thought he might be able to fix it by logging on to his…
Patient data found in Helsinki street
YLE reports: Finnish tabloid Ilta-Sanomat reports that a trove of patient data including names and personal ID numbers has been found in the Pasila district of Helsinki. The data is from patient records from a contraception clinic from the 1980s and 1990s. An IS reader spotted the papers and found six documents on Asemapäällikönkatu, before…
Nearly 8K Georgia Tech students had personal info leaked in email gaffe
Jonathan Carlson reports: The CBS46 Bulldog learned exclusively of an accidental breach of records at Georgia Tech involving everything from grades to home addresses. Georgia Tech tells CBS46 that nearly 8,000 students were impacted. “It is kind of uncomfortable, ya know,” one student told us on campus. Students are reacting after a staffer in the…
LifeLock Bug Exposed Millions of Customer Email Addresses
Brian Krebs reports: Identity theft protection firm LifeLock — a company that’s built a name for itself based on the promise of helping consumers protect their identities online — may have actually exposed customers to additional attacks from ID thieves and phishers. The company just fixed a vulnerability on its site that allowed anyone with…
Demands for full investigation into ‘shocking’ data breach
Allison Morris reports: There have been calls for a “rigorous investigation” into a major PSNI data breach that has resulted in hundreds of pages of private citizens’ details being placed into the hands of loyalists. The Irish News revealed yesterday that the digital files, including internet passwords, were unintentionally given to loyalists under investigation by…