CBC News reports: Manitoba Finance is investigating after the province revealed it might have accidentally sent six sets of business tax documents to the wrong address. A handful of tax returns may have been included in envelopes intended for and sent to other businesses, the province said in a statement Tuesday. The documents displayed the business name, address, account number…
Category: Exposure
Modern Business Solutions’ leaky bucket provided a field day for downloaders
Update of Oct. 18: a vendor on the dark web has seemingly put the database up for sale for $200. The listing says: 58,848,308 ModBSolutions.com no passwords Business 2016-10 contains field “email”,”gender”,”zip,”state”,”city”,”address”,”last_name”,”first_name”,”updatedate”,”job” Note that MBS never responded to my courtesy notification, never responded to a request for a statement as to what they were doing in…
Northwest Community notifies patients of R-C Healthcare breach
It may seem like old news to you by now, but some patients affected by a third-party breach at R-C Healthcare are first finding out about it now. As reported previously on this site, R-C Healthcare had been notified by Bon Secours on June 14 that files with 655,000 of its patients’ records were exposed. The exposure…
Ca: Private student information mistakenly posted online by Surrey School Board
Jilly Slattery reports: Some Surrey parents are enraged after discovering their private information and their children’s school attendance records were publicly posted online. The absentee records from Frank Hurt Secondary School were posted online in 2014, and remained there for anyone to see until recently. The list included names, phone numbers, and addresses, and some sensitive…
LabMD asks the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals to Stay FTC’s Final Order
The FTC wouldn’t grant a stay when LabMD requested a stay of their final order, so not surprisingly, LabMD is seeking an immediate and temporary stay from the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. I’ve uploaded the motion here (pdf). I think they make a strong case for a stay, but see what you think after you…
University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority notifies patients of mailing error
UW Health announced today that it is sending letters to certain patients about a privacy incident. UW Health learned on August 3, 2016, that patient satisfaction surveys were addressed “To the parents or guardians [patient’s name]” of some adult patients and mailed between July 29, 2016, and August 2, 2016. The enclosed cover letter was…