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Personal details of 220,000 Malaysian organ donors and their next of kin leaked online

Posted on January 23, 2018 by Dissent

Sharmila Nair reports: The personal details of over 220,000 organ donors pledgers in Malaysia has been leaked online. As disclosed by online forum and technology news site lowyat.net, the leaked data contains MyKad numbers, home addresses, telephone numbers of not just the pledgers but that of their next of kin as well. The source of…

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Private info for hundreds of Kansas voters exposed by Florida

Posted on January 22, 2018 by Dissent

Jonathan Shorman and Hunter Woodall report: Partial Social Security numbers for nearly 1,000 Kansas voters were released publicly by Florida after Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s office provided the data as part of a program that looks for double voter registrations. Kobach called the disclosure unfortunate but defended the program, called Crosscheck, as key to…

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Home Office admits it sent asylum seeker’s personal info to the state he was fleeing

Posted on January 22, 2018 by Dissent

From the D’oh dept., Rebecca Hill reports: An asylum seeker has won £15,500 from the UK’s Home Office after it blabbed confidential information about his persecution in his home country – to authorities in the state. In a poorly thought-through attempt to verify the authenticity of a set of documents about the asylum seeker, the…

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Corovan Corporation & Employer Leasing notifying 1,500 California residents of data breach

Posted on January 22, 2018 by Dissent

It was one of those deja vu experiences I’m increasingly likely to have these days. I read a breach notification template that involved health insurance information, made a note of it in my compilation worksheet for Protenus, and was going about my other work when I read another notification template that was identical – except…

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UK: ICO investigates Age UK after two data breaches

Posted on January 22, 2018 by Dissent

Kirsty Weakley writes: Age UK lost the personal details for current and former staff in two separate data breaches at the end of last year and has reported itself to the Information Commissioner’s Office. The charity has written to current and former employees to tell them that there were two incidents at the end of…

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Florida Department of State notifies 945 of breach involving the last four digits of their SSN

Posted on January 19, 2018 by Dissent

IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING INADVERTENT RELEASE OF LIMITED CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION DOS providing free credit monitoring services for 945 affected individuals TALLAHASSEE – In January 2013, The Florida Department of State, Division of Elections temporarily participated in a project pilot in an effort to facilitate validation of information between states. In September 2017, the last four digits…

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