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…
Category: Exposure
TPS recovers confidential student information found in dumpster behind Tulsa school
Samuel Hardiman and Reece Ristau report: Tulsa Public Schools may have violated multiple current or former students’ privacy rights afforded under federal law if it failed to protect confidential student records a Tulsa woman said she found in large metal trash receptacles behind McKinley Elementary School on Sunday evening. The records include gifted and talented…
AU:Sexual assault victim’s medical records given to wrong person
Another small-N breach with huge consequences. Chris O’Keefe reports: Ryde Hospital is at the centre of a gross breach of privacy, after the medical records of a sexual assault victim were mistakenly handed to another patient. A young woman was discharged from the hospital in Sydney’s North last week after presenting with a stomach bug….
Delhi HC issues notice in Shamnad Basheer’s plea seeking damages for Aadhaar data leaks
Aditi Singh reports: The Delhi High Court today issued notice to Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and the Central government in a plea seeking damages for Aadhaar data leaks. The respondents were granted six weeks’ time to file their replies in the matter. A Division Bench of Justices S Ravindra Bhat and Anu Malhotra was hearing a…
Russian blogger uncovers a treasure trove of police records at an abandoned station in Moscow
Meduza reports: On August 16, blogger Lana Sator, a self-described “urbex [urban exploration] tourist” published photographs from an abandoned building on Bolshaya Cheremushkinskaya Street, which once housed a police station and office of the (now dissolved) Federal Migration Service. Sator says she crawled into the two-story building through an open window. The building was unguarded…
Twitch Glitch Exposed Some Users’ Private Messages
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Twitch is warning users of a bug in one of its recently retired features that may have exposed some of their messages to other users. “On May 5, 2018, Twitch removed a legacy feature called Messages and provided users the ability to download an archive of past messages,” the game streaming company…