Joji Simon reports: Kochi: Close on the heels of the data leak from Service and Payroll Repository of Kerala (SPARK), the database of over 5.5 lakh government employees and pensioners in the state, another serious security breach of employee database maintained by a state government department has been reported. The breach was detected in the Supplyco…
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Missouri mental health department admits mailing error
AP reports: The Missouri Department of Mental Health is notifying 1,000 people that some personal information might have been mailed to an incorrect address. The department said in a statement Friday that the information released included only the participants’ names, not medical or financial information. Read more on FOX2.
Ca: Student Transportation Services of Central Ontario plans security audit after breach of student personal information in Peterborough area
Joelle Kovach reports: The agency that co-ordinates busing for schools in the Peterborough area has arranged for a security audit after it accidentally allowed public access to a database of student contact and busing information through social media. Joel Sloggett, CAO of Student Transportation Services of Central Ontario (STSCO), said Wednesday that the personal information…
Etsy Discloses Tax-Related Privacy Breach
Ina Steiner reports: Etsy confirmed a privacy breach impacted about 1,500 sellers. The incident was caused by human error and was not related to any hacking or website vulnerability. The incident occurred on January 30, 2018, when an Etsy seller requested a copy of their 2016 federal 1099 tax form. Etsy sent a letter to…
Unsecured server exposed thousands of FedEx customer records
Zack Whittaker reports: FedEx has exposed private information belonging to thousands of its customers after a legacy server was left open without a password. The discovery was made by security researchers at the Kromtech Security Center, which posted details of the exposure alongside ZDNet. The data, hosted on a password-less Amazon S3 storage server, was…
Triple-S Advantage notifies 36,305 Puerto Rican members of mailing error involving their information
If you were an entity that wound up as part of a $3.5 million settlement with HHS in 2015, you probably wouldn’t want to be reporting yet another breach to HHS now, particularly if your area was still trying to recover from a major hurricane and crisis. Yet that’s the situation Triple-S Advantage, an independent licensee…