Roxana Hegeman reports: A civil rights group filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach challenging a multi-state voter registration database it claims exposed sensitive information including partial Social Security numbers from nearly a thousand state voters. The complaint by the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas alleges “reckless maintenance” of…
Category: Exposure
Asylum seeker spreadsheet data blurt: UK Home Office loses appeal to limit claimants
Rebecca Hill reports: The British Home Office’s bid to reduce the number of potential claimants from a 2013 data breach that exposed the personal details of thousands of asylum seekers has been knocked back by the Court of Appeal. Rather than simply publishing overall statistics on the family returns process – the system by which…
Andhra Pradesh Tracked You As You Bought Viagra, Then Put Your Name and Phone Number on the Internet for the World to See
Gopal Sathe reports: Bengaluru — If you are the gentleman who bought Suhagra 50, a generic version of Viagra, and some Vomiford anti-nausea drops, on June 13 from a government-run Anna Sanjivini store in Anantpur in Rayalseema, your name, phone number and purchases, were listed on an Andhra Pradesh government website — until HuffPost alerted…
More details emerge about Chicago Public Schools data breach
If there is a Keystone Cops equivalent of a k-12 data breach, a recent incident involving Chicago Public Schools may be a strong contender. Last week, this site noted a breach that seemed puzzling in its description. Since that time, some informed parents have reached out to me to provide me with more details about…
Two El Paso County Sheriff’s employees claim county should pay them $400k for accidental leak of their personnel info.
We’ve seen mistakes made in responding to public records requests that result in people’s personnel information or identity information being improperly released. But if there’s a mistake, and the receiving party is a journalist who agrees NOT to use the information and who destroys the data, should those whose data were revealed be entitled to…
Details of 15,000 Orange users hacked
Alan Hope reports: Telecommunications company Orange has admitted that a “data leak” exposed the personal information of some 15,000 customers in Belgium to possible hackers. The leak took place two weeks ago, but was only this week revealed to the clients affected. Orange did not reveal exactly what details had been leaked, but the possibilities…