Dell Cameron reports: A misconfigured storage device discovered by a security researcher in October left exposed thousands of internal files belonging to an explosives-handling company. The files, which have since been secured, reportedly included details about facilities in three U.S. states where explosives are stored. The leaky file repository belonged to Allied-Horizontal Wireline Services(AHWS), a leading wireline company…
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UK: Borough council probed in potential mass data breach
PSE reports: A Nottinghamshire borough council has been investigated by police after it was potentially the site of a mass breach of data protection laws. Police were notified in September after a confidential email sent to Broxtowe Borough Council which made allegations about a member of staff’s conduct was sent to all 730 staff. Police…
UK: Personal details and criminal records of hundreds of ex-Bolton at Home residents leaked after being left in cabinet sold for £10
How is this still happening in 2016? If you read the full article, you’ll find there was a lot of sensitive information in the folders left in the cabinet. Liam Thorpe reports: The personal details, health records and criminal histories of hundreds of vulnerable people have been left in a filing cabinet which was sold for…
Ca: Commissioner’s investigation determines that faxing failures put sensitive mental health information at risk.
From the Information and Privacy Commissioner for Nova Scotia: HALIFAX – Three separate breaches of sensitive mental health information have led Nova Scotia’s Information and Privacy Commissioner, Catherine Tully, to call for improvements in how the health system transmits personal health information. In a new report issued today, the Office of the Information and Privacy…
Buffalo Public Schools exposed more than 4,000 records with students’ and parents’ personal information [DISPUTED]
Update: This report has been disputed. BPS claims that their IT department says “this is a dummy test page with no real information.” DataBreaches.net notes that the file was more than 100 pages, populated with information. One record on the first page did appear to be test or dummy data, but because DataBreaches.net did not…
AU: Kingston Council emails out personal details of more than 900 people
Sam Bidey reports: Kingston Council will appoint an independent investigator after an email slip up that saw the personal details of more than 2000 people released. The council sent out the bulk email on Wednesday to more than 900 maternal and child health care clients asking them to take part in an online survey, but a…