George Mathewson and Troy Shantz report: Bluewater Health has contacted the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario about a potential breach of confidential patient information stemming from a break-in at the former Sarnia General Hospital site. […] On Jan. 18, Sarnia Police reported a 30-year-old woman had been arrested after allegedly exiting a taxi and leaving behind…
Category: Exposure
Dirty secrets of 180,000 users of a porn site that posts ‘upskirt’ photos are leaked
Shivali Best reports: Users of a shady porn site that posts ‘upskirt’ pictures of women could have their dirty secrets exposed. Personal details of 180,000 users of The Candid Board have been uploaded to the internet after a security breach, along with details of their time of last login. Among the details were 68 military…
AU: Another child protection privacy breach names more than 30 kids in care
Beau Donnelly reports: Victoria’s embattled child protection department has again been caught leaking private information – even after an internal inquiry identified a litany of breaches. Three months after the Andrews government pledged better training for staff, the Department of Health and Human Services released a file containing protected information about dozens of children in foster care….
TriHealth notifies 1,126 patients after software glitch sends statements to old addresses
TriHealth in Cincinnati has issued the following notice about a mailing error that resulted in communications – including billing statements – being sent to patients’ previous addresses rather than their current addresses. The error was attributed to a “software glitch.” January 20, 2017 In late November of 2016, TriHealth discovered a software glitch inadvertently replaced the…
Five breaches involving health data disclosed in one day?
Breaches involving health data in 2017 are continuing where 2016 left off – there are too many of them. In addition to the breaches reported earlier today on this site involving Catholic Charities of Baltimore and Complete Wellness (also in Baltimore), we also learned about three other breaches involving health data: The Center for Mental Health in Montana…
Rsync errors lead to data leak at Canadian ISP, KWIC Internet
Steve Ragan reports on a leak first uncovered by Chris Vickery of MacKeeper Security Research Center. Kudos to Steve for ensuring that notification was made so that the files got secured, even though it’s not yet clear for how long they were exposed and whether others may have accessed them. Steve writes: Misconfigured Rsync instances…