Kelly Sheridan reports: A data leak at Dow Jones & Co. exposed the personal information of millions of customers after a public cloud configuration error. This marks the fifth major public cloud leak in the past several months after similar incidents affected Verizon, the WWE, US voter records, and Scottrade. This mistake compromised millions of…
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Ca: District School Board of Niagara reaching out to parents after privacy breach
Allan Benner reports: District School Board of Niagara is hoping to hear from parents to determine the extent of a privacy breach at a Welland high school. DSBN communications manager Kim Yielding said the school board is asking parents of students at Welland Centennial Secondary School to call 905-641-2929, ext. 54117, and leave a message…
UK: NHS medic posts confidential patient data of new mums on Facebook
Martyn Halle and Nicola Fifield report: The confidential patient data of 31 new mums at a scandal-hit NHS hospital was posted on Facebook by a medic. Sensitive details were revealed by Italian researcher Luigi Carbone, who was working on a study to improve detection of pregnancies with a high risk of pre-eclampsia. Mr Carbone uploaded a photo of his laptop…
Veterans Administration responds to Freedom of Information request; releases breach reports
So what did we miss because the Veterans Administration stopped posting their monthly breach reports to Congress on their web site? DataBreaches.net filed a Freedom of Information request on June 7, and the VA has responded by providing all of the requested monthly reports for the period May, 2016 – June 7, 2017. As an…
Sydney surgeon reprimanded for privacy breach
The Cape Breton Post reports: The Nova Scotia College of Physicians and Surgeons has reprimanded a former Cape Breton vascular surgeon for failing to properly dispose of confidential medical records as he closed his practice in Sydney. Dr. Ronen Jhirad consented to the reprimand and will contribute toward the cost of the college’s investigation. The…
How A Verizon Partner Exposed 14 Million Customer Accounts
Dan O’Sullivan reports: UpGuard’s Cyber Risk Team can now report that a misconfigured cloud-based file repository exposed the names, addresses, account details, and account personal identification numbers (PINs) of as many as 14 million US customers of telecommunications carrier Verizon, per analysis of the average number of accounts exposed per day in the sample that…