Jan. 29 – please see update under this post. Meredith Cohn reports on a breach involving University of Baltimore student data: The University of Baltimore has added protections to personal student data that officials had left unsecured possibly for years, according to a state audit released this month. The information on 117,793 students was kept…
Category: Exposure
San Diego County Office of Education notifies component school districts of breach of employee retirement contribution data
The San Diego County Office of Education recently notified component districts that some employee retirement contribution data had been incorrectly shared with districts. From their notification: What Happened? On December 5, 2017, a San Diego County Office of Education (“SDCOE”) employee inadvertently sent an employee retirement contribution spreadsheet, containing employee name, Social Security number, and funding…
UK: Former civil servant suing government department after ‘highly sensitive’ medical information reportedly revealed in email
Neal Keeling reports: A former civil servant is suing the government department where he worked after ‘highly sensitive’ medical information about him was reportedly revealed to a dozen colleagues in an email. Lawyers for Aftab Marchant have issued High Court proceedings against the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and are seeking damages of up…
Kansas website exposed state employees’ personal information: report
It was only a few days ago that there were reports that Florida had exposed the last 4 digits of almost 1,000 Kansas residents’ Social Security Numbers. Not to be outdone, Kansas posted its own citizens SSN, too, it seems. As Brett Samuels reports: The Kansas Secretary of State’s office on Thursday posted the personal…
Email gaffe by Coventry University staff exposed 1,930 students’ details
The Coventry Telegraph reports that an email gaffe exposed some limited information on almost 2,000 students: Coventry University is being investigated after students’ confidential data was leaked to almost 2,000 people, the Telegraph can reveal. The university has apologised for the security breach and insists no passwords, financial or residential information was revealed. Confidential student…
ICE Releases Personal Information Of Immigrant-Crime Hotline Users
Because victims didn’t have enough tsuris already? This one appears to be an error made in responding to a FOIA request that resulted in personal information being revealed online. There was no text with the story – just the video news broadcast.