Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho posted this notice on their web site: On June 28, 2016, some emails notifying individuals of an online portal were inadvertently sent to the wrong addresses. This caused individuals to receive another person’s email, which included the intended recipient’s first and last name. There was no other…
Category: Exposure
NL: Data leak put thousands of Utrecht residents’ info on streets
Oof. Janene Pieters reports: The personal data of thousands of Utrecht residents was available for anyone to look at due to a so-called data leak at the municipality of Utrecht earlier this year, the Telegraaf reports based on documents received through the Freedom of Information Act. In total 316 pages of names with corresponding social…
AU: OAIC accepts undertaking from ARC on Optus customer data breach
Corinne Riechert reports a follow-up to a breach previously noted on this site: The Australian Privacy Commissioner has accepted an enforceable undertaking from ARC Mercantile following a breach of personal customer data at the end of last year, which occurred when an ARC employee posted a spreadsheet of customers owing money to Optus on Freelancer.com. Read more…
MA: SSNs, addresses inadvertently posted on Walpole Police Dept.’s website
WFXT reports: Social security numbers, addresses, phone numbers and other personal information was accidentally posted on Walpole Police Department‘s website. The personal information was part of last week’s dispatch log. The dispatch log contains a record of all incidents officer responded to, and that includes all of the personal information that is redacted from the press…
NE: Personal and medical information discarded after pharmacy closes business
Max Massey of KOLN reports that the former owner of Four Star Drug in Lincoln said he had shredded, or transferred all of the important documents once his store went out of business. Sometimes a picture does speak 1,000 words. Look at this stack of papers with social security numbers, medical history, prescriptions, and even papers labeled confidential….
Fired employee sues SF State for $1 million after alleged hack
Golden Gate Express reports on a lawsuit stemming from a breach you may not have heard about: A former SF State information security officer claimed in a lawsuit that she was fired in a University attempt to sweep “under the rug” a 2014 hack involving a significant student records breach including financial records and password reset…