City hall has settled the wrongful dismissal lawsuit launched by former chief building official Bruce Poole and has also recovered personal information about City of Guelph employees that was inadvertently given to Poole’s lawyers. These announcements, made in two separate but related city hall news releases late Tuesday afternoon, conclude a matter that cost deputy…
Category: Exposure
Harvard Computer Society’s Face Should be VERY Crimson: Inadvertently Exposed Student Info Online – for YEARS
Hannah Natanson & Derek G. Xiao report: More than 1.4 million emails—some divulging Harvard students’ grades, financial aid information, and at least one individual’s Social Security number—sent over Harvard Computer Society email lists were open to the public until Monday. Teaching fellows, resident tutors, College administrators, and thousands of undergraduates have used the email list…
UK: ‘Shambles’ as council makes blunder with children in care register
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…
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.