Express & Star reports: The council mistakenly sent the list of children, including personal information, to a number of its in-house foster carers. It has now launched an investigation into the data breach and insisted that ‘no children were put at risk’. But County Councillor George Adamson, who is also the leader of Cannock Chase District…
Category: Exposure
The CoPilot Provider Support Services incident: The HIPAA issue
In the first part of a discussion of an incident reported by CoPilot Provider Support Services, this site reported claims by John Witkowski, a former employee, that CoPilot had not reported accurately on the incident. In this part, we focus on just one of CoPilot’s claims – that they are not a business associate under HIPAA….
OCR investigating CoPilot Provider Support Services breach; former employee lodged complaint
When CoPilot Provider Support Services recently disclosed a security incident that they had known about since 2015, their statements might have led you to believe that a disgruntled former employee had hacked them or misused previously authorized access, and that law enforcement might be looking into criminal charges. If you thought that, you were wrong on both counts. CoPilot Provider Support Services (“CoPilot”) describes itself…
AU: Privacy commissioner apologises for accidentally releasing email addresses
The Privacy Commissioner has been forced to apologise after the email addresses of more than 300 people were accidentally released. In an invite to a Information Security forum, the body revealed the emails of all those who had been invited. Read more on 3AW.
Guelph notifying staff whose private information was compromised
Tony Saxon reports that Guelph employees affected by a breach last month are being notified. The breach – an erroneous disclosure of employee information – has already cost the city’s CAO his job. Early last month over 50,000 email items were accidentally given to a former city employee as part of an ongoing $1 million wrongful…
AU: Top End Health Service breach exposes private details of cancer patients
Hayley Sorenson reports: Confidential documents showing the diagnoses and contact details of dozens of Royal Darwin Hospital cancer patients ended up in a suburban driveway. The three-page file appears to be an appointment schedule for Northern Territory Radiation Oncology, based at the Alan Walker Cancer Centre at the RDH. It shows the names, phone numbers and…