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…
Category: Exposure
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…
Small Milwaukee publisher sues to stop misrouted medical faxes putting him at risk
Jim Stingl reports: If you fax private medical information to a health management company in Ohio, you don’t expect it to arrive instead at a small publishing firm in Milwaukee. Well, surprise! That’s exactly what has been happening since the summer of 2015. Craig Berg, owner of Moose Moss Press, has tried to make it stop, but the wayward…
Used government computers bought at auction filled with personal information
The 1980s called…. Scott Noll reports that a KHOU investigation “once again found the City of Houston selling private, personal information through online auctions of used government equipment.” What did they find, you wonder? “On one of the computers, we found a database containing over 100,000 medical records,” explained computer expert Gary Huestis. They do…
Denuvo Website Leaks Secret Information, Crackers Swarm
While the folks at Denuvo are leaders in the field of video game protection, the same cannot be said about their website. In an embarrassing blunder, the company has left some directories and files open to the public and right now members of the cracking community are downloading and scrutinizing the contents. Read more on…
UK: Hundreds of confidential email addresses were shared with landlords operating in Cardiff
Seriously? Still? Cardiff council says it will investigate after hundreds of confidential email addresses were published. Landlords who are on the mailing list for Rent Smart Wales received an email on Thursday from a Cardiff council email address. In that email, the email addresses of all recipients were visible. Read more on WalesOnline.