CBC News reports: The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) has concluded that a privacy breach that led to the salary and employee ID information of some Royal Newfoundland Constabulary officers being published online earlier this year was accidental. The information was published as part of the 2016 Sunshine list, which listed people who…
Category: Exposure
State juror pool data breach exposed Social Security numbers
Kieran Nicholson reported: A lapse in security at the Colorado Judicial Department led to information about jurors in Colorado, including Social Security numbers, being exposed on the internet for about a year. The state court administrator’s office was contacted July 27 by a person in Alaska who alerted state officials about the potential for massive…
NJ: Documents with sensitive information found in used office furniture
News12 in NJ reports: Hundreds of employment documents with sensitive information were found inside some used office furniture. […] Most of the forms seem to have come from employees at a health group based in New Jersey. News 12 reached out to the company for comment, but did not hear back. Read more on…
Top Next-Gen Security Firm Leaking Terabytes of Customer Data
Update2: Brian Krebs has a great post criticizing those who reported on DirectDefense’s claims without waiting for a response from Cb. Sadly, this site is also guilty of that by just citing and linking to others’ reporting without doing any verification. Original Post: From the this-can’t-be-good dept., Catalin Cimpanu reports: Sensitive corporate data from customers…
NZ: Medical clinic breaches 1000 people’s privacy
Otago Daily Times reports: About 1000 people’s privacy was breached in an email sent out by a medical clinic. Privacy Commissioner John Edwards tweeted about the breach this morning, imploring people to be careful. “Come on people, it’s not rocket surgery!” part of the tweet said. Further information from the commission showed the privacy of…
AU: Blood Service escapes penalties in data breach investigation
Allie Coyne reports: The Australian Red Cross Blood Service and its website contractor have escaped penalties from the country’s privacy watchdog over a 2016 data breach that exposed the data of 550,000 donors. In late October last year the Blood Service revealed its website partner Precedent had inadvertently exposed a 1.74GB database backup containing 1.28 million…