Allie Coyne reports: More than one million personal and medical records of Australian citizens donating blood to the Red Cross Blood Service have been exposed online in the country’s biggest and most damaging data breach to date. A 1.74 GB file containing 1.28 million donor records going back to 2010, published to a publicly-facing website,…
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MT: Credit union tells customers about possible security breach
AP reports thatRocky Mountain Credit Union in Montana has notified 135 of its members that some of their personal information could have been publicly accessible through its website between April 15 and June 30. President and CEO Ed Stofko says the information technology staff found a security issue with the website customers used to upload documents while applying…
NC: Information on 350 students’ tuition balances accidentally released in batch email
Sofia Edelman reports: Approximately 60 students woke up this morning to an email containing information on tuition balances for more than 350 students. The email came from the Office of the University Cashier just before 9 a.m. reminding students with due balances to pay in order to register for spring classes. Along with the students’…
Medical marijuana patients’ personal information found in trash pile
Fox10 reports: A medical marijuana dispensary is conducting an investigation into how sensitive patient information ended up in a pile of trash on a public sidewalk. The man who found the medical records believes this is a breach of patient privacy. The documents weren’t shredded and were laying out in the open. Somehow, trash from…
Help Us Tell Telly That They Have Exposed 8M Subscribers!
RBS writes: We need your help to contact an organization that has thus far been unresponsive to numerous notifications that we have sent about a discovered data breach! Read on to understand the issue and see how you can help! We know that we have become a bit of a broken record when it comes to…
SG: Fined for leaking 8,000 people’s personal data
K.C. Vijayan A printing firm hired by an insurance company sent erroneous account statements to policyholders that resulted in more than 8,000 people having their personal data leaked. The data breach by Toh-Shi Printing Singapore was its second such infringement and it was fined $25,000 last month by the Personal Data Protection Commission Singapore (PDPC)…