Three Kaiser units – Kaiser Permanente Health Plan, Inc of Northern California, Kaiser Permanente Health Plan, Inc of Southern California, and Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Northwest – have been notifying members after an error exposed some members’ protected health information for a brief period. Based on reports to HHS, 8,020 members have been notified that for approximately two hours during…
Category: Exposure
Ca: Eastern Health ordered to tighten procedures after patient privacy breach
CBC News reports: Newfoundland and Labrador’s privacy commissioner is ordering Eastern Health to remind staff to log out of computer programs, following an investigation of a privacy breach. Information and Privacy Commissioner Donovan Molloy’s report describes the May 28, 2015 incident as an “intentional breach of patient information.” The report says an unknown person inappropriately accessed and printed personal health information…
Customers for more than a hundred car dealerships across the US were put at risk because of shoddy database security
Zack Whittaker reports: If you bought a car in the last few years, there’s a good chance your personal information may have found its way to the open internet. Names, addresses, phone numbers and social security numbers for both customers and employees for over a hundred car dealerships have leaked online, all thanks to a…
Ottawa city staff scramble after accidentally releasing retirees’ medical information
Susan Sherring reports: The City of Ottawa has been left scrambling after committing a serious breach privacy in releasing to a reporter the names and some personal and medical information of about a dozen city retirees. Worse yet, the city didn’t realize the error until notified by this reporter. “Allow me to begin this response by…
Cisco jobs portal exposed personal data
ITnews reports: Wrongly configured security settings in a Cisco portal used for job applications has resulted in the leak of personal data online. The networking vendor told affected individuals that a “limited set of job application related information” had been exposed due to botched settings in the mobile version of its professional careers website. It said the…
Security breach in shopping app AliExpress
Daniel Gilenson reports: A security breach was discovered in the popular shopping application AliExpress. In the last several days details of many users who requested to remain anonymous were exposed to anyone. […] On the website, anyone who writes a comment may remain anonymous but since the last update it was discovered that the…