Shinovene Immanuel and Okeri Ngutjinazo report: Personal information of thousands of people registered with the Social Security Commission (SSC) has been leaked on the internet. The leak, extracted from the SSC website since Friday, includes private details of clients such as salaries, home addresses and copies of national documents, including ID cards and passports. The…
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Facebook bug set 14 million users’ sharing settings to public
Heather Kelly reports: For a period of four days in May, about 14 million Facebook users around the world had their default sharing setting for all new posts set to public, the company revealed Thursday. The bug, which affected those users from May 18 to May 22, occurred while Facebook was testing a new feature….
Cigna Error Revealed Customer Bank and Claims Data in Asia
Zachary Tracer reports: Cigna Corp. exposed private information including bank-account details of some customers in Asia due to a system error, the health insurer said. The company told Bloomberg it accidentally sent the information to some customers and health-care providers in early May. Sabrina Cheung, a Cigna spokeswoman, said that the situation affected a small…
UK: Hospital data leak “regrettable”, says NHS Trust director
Kenny Lomas reports: The trust that runs Whiston Hospital reported itself to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) following a data leak, it has been revealed. Francis Andrews, assistant medical director at St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, told members of the board that the incident was “regrettable”. Speaking at the board meeting, he said the…
Fitness app PumpUp leaked health data, private messages
Zack Whittaker reports: A popular fitness app that claims over six million users was leaking private and sensitive data, including health information and private messages sent between users. PumpUp, an Ontario-based company, bills itself as a fitness community, allowing subscribers to discover new workouts and record their results, and get advice from fitness coaches and…
‘Embarrassing’ leak shows EU falls short of own GDPR data law
Margi Murphy Ben Riley-Smith report: The European Commission has claimed it is not subject to the strict new data protection law that it has imposed across Europe, following an “embarrassing” leak of personal data on its website. Officials in Brussels admitted the bureaucracy that designed the rules is not itself compliant with the General Data Protection…