Cynthia O’Donoghue and Chantelle Taylor write: A recent High Court decision, TLT and others v Secretary of State for the Home Office [2016] EWHC 2217 (QB) (“TLT v SoS”), paves the way for the greater recognition of distress in cases of data breaches and the misuse of private information. The victims of a data breach, in this case asylum…
Category: Exposure
NZ: Novopay botch up creates security breach for school staff
From Fuseworks Media: Some schools have been sent the full payroll information of other schools this week in what appears to be a significant privacy breach by Novopay, the school payroll service. The principal of Hamilton West School, Mark Penman, says his school was sent a payroll report known as the SUE report, containing the…
Centrelink apologizes for new privacy breach
From the oi-veh dept., Noel Towell reports: Centrelink has apologised to hundreds of users of the myGov web portal after their contact details were shared with hundreds of strangers – twice. The latest federal government data breach is being blamed on a rookie email error, someone at the giant Department of Human Services hitting the CC button on an email…
Popular Texas restaurant under fire after dumpster discovery
Alex Achten reports: It was a startling surprise for neighbors who found papers containing social security numbers, bank accounts, and other personal information blowing across their yards over the weekend. We did some digging, and found out the papers came from inside a dumpster at a popular nearby restaurant. Frances Roberts lives across the street…
Security Fail Exposed Details of Virgin Media’s UK Job Applicants
Mark Jackson reports: A security flaw in the third-party service that Virgin Media uses to process new job applications could have exposed the personal CV details of between 30,000 and 50,000 people to the Internet. A student called Alikhan Uzakov discovered the problem while filling out an application form for the operator (like this one). At this point he…
More than 5,000 people exposed in Habitat for Humanity data breach
Dell Cameron reports: A massive data breach earlier this month at Habitat for Humanity exposed the personal information of thousands of individuals, including their Social Security numbers. Habitat for Humanity of Michigan’s virtual hard drive backups, which contained more than 400GB of information, were discovered online by an Austin-based security researcher in early October. The…