The Sentinel reports: Tezpur, Nov 27: There has been strong reaction over the recent act of absolute negligence on the part of a Supervisor of the Social Welfare Department in Tezpur in Sonitpur district after 300 important documents related to physically-abled persons were found scattered on the road by an auto-rickshaw driver. According to sources,…
Category: Exposure
Confidential files containing graphic descriptions of alleged rapes and victims’ details were found in a bin
Beth Abbit reports: Rape complainants’ confidential details were exposed by a cache of lawyers’ files dumped in a bin and found by a passer-by. Graphic accounts of alleged attacks – and the names of alleged victims and the accused – were among a stash of papers left in a dumpster by a canal in Ancoats….
IE: CSO admits major data breach as 3,000 people’s details leaked in email gaffe
Alan O’Keeffe reports: The Central Statistics Office has put its hands up concerning an error by a staff member which led to a serious breach of data protection rules. Information on thousands of people who had worked for the CSO had been inadvertently sent to individuals as a result of the mistake. The mistake, which…
NC DHHS Reports Data Security Incident
November 24 – The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services is notifying the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights and affected individuals of a recent incident in which a spreadsheet containing personal information was sent in error to a vendor in an unencrypted email. The spreadsheet included names, social security…
AU: Data breach hits Department of Social Services credit card system
For more than one year, employee data of approximately 8,500 Department of Social Services employees was exposed online due to an error by contractor Business Information Services. Paul Karp reports that the compromised data included: credit card information, employees’ names, user names, work phone numbers, work emails, system passwords, Australian government services number, public service classification…
Uber Concealed Cyberattack That Exposed 57 Million People’s Data
Eric Newcomer reports: Hackers stole the personal data of 57 million customers and drivers from Uber Technologies Inc., a massive breach that the company concealed for more than a year. This week, the ride-hailing company ousted Joe Sullivan, chief security officer, and one of his deputies for their roles in keeping the hack under wraps….