Troy Hunt writes: Let me make it crystal clear in the opening paragraph: this incident is not about any sort of security vulnerability on GitHub’s behalf, rather it relates to a trove of data from their site which was inappropriately scraped and then inadvertently exposed due to a vulnerability in another service. My data. Probably…
Category: Exposure
Anti-Trump Protesters Post Personal Information Of Electoral College Members
Blake Montgomery reports: The #NotMyPresident Alliance, a national anti-Donald Trump protest group, has released the personal information of dozens of Electoral College members in states that voted Republican. A spreadsheet distributed to supporters Wednesday included the personal phone numbers, addresses, religions, races, genders, and candidate preference of the electors. The document does not have a…
AU: Personal details of thousands of residents revealed by Melbourne council in data breach
ABC reports: A local council in Melbourne’s south-east is embroiled in a privacy breach, after the personal details of more than 2,000 residents were accidentally distributed to the public. A survey was emailed to 952 clients of the City of Kingston Maternal and Child Health Service on Wednesday, but there was an excel spreadsheet attached…
Emblem Health notifies GHI members whose SSN was exposed in mailing labels
Group Health Incorporated (GHI), an Emblem Health company, is notifying members of a breach due to exposure of PHI on mailing labels. The mailing error occurred between October 3 and October 14, and was discovered on October 13. They explain: Earlier this month, GHI mailed you a copy of your Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Evidence of…
Horizon says privacy breach could affect up to 170K N.J. customers
Susan K. Livio reports that a vendor error has affected as many as 170,000 BCBS members in New Jersey: Some benefit letters mailed to as many as 170,000 Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey customers over a recent three-day period included the names, policy numbers and the physician information of other policy holders — a…
UK: Ealing Council loses ‘sensitive’ personal data after social worker leaves court documents on roof of car and drives off
David Rivers reports: The personal information of almost 30 people was lost after an Ealing Council social worker left court documents on the roof of her car and drove off. Personal data relating to 27 people including 14 children, some of it sensitive, was lost following the blunder in February and have never been recovered. Read more…