Vincent Kearney reports: A data breach involving the personal details of hundreds of Northern Ireland Prison Service employees has been described as “a major embarrassment”. However, the BBC understands it is not being treated as a major security breach. A junior employee at the Department of Justice sent a spreadsheet with names and dates of…
Category: Exposure
UK: Data watchdog probe as patient records go missing in transit
Press Association reports: The Information Commissioner’s Office is investigating problems with a national service for transporting patient records after GPs complained some were going missing. NHS England has commissioned private firm Capita to run the Primary Care Support England service, which handles GP payments, medical supplies, moving records and patient registrations. It has contracted CitySprint,…
UK: Huge leak of data reveals junior doctors leaders discussed drawing out dispute for a year
Charlie Cooper reports: The junior doctor leadership of the British Medical Association discussed “drawing out” their contract dispute with the Government for more than a year, a huge leak of private messages sent between the union’s committee members reveals. Despite publicly stating throughout their dispute that a solution could be reached if the Government was…
In: Raids by Agra drug enforcement dept fail due to leak of information
Anuja Jaiswal reports: An apparent leak from the Food Safety and Drug Department, Agra, resulted in a series of failed raids by it’s Enforcement wing on Tuesday afternoon, as six medical stores in the city, suspected to be selling flavoured “tincture”, which has 90 per cent alcohol content, as a cheap liquor alternative to alcoholics, were…
CA: Email gaffe at clinic exposes patients’ names and email addresses
Oops. It appears that somehow, Berkeley Endocrine Clinic had spam sent to a number of its patients. Trying to address that, they sent out an email to all patients. Unfortunately, as Dr. Omar Murad explains, the patients’ names and email addresses showed in the TO: field: On April 22, 2016, my office was subject to a spam…
AU: Email fail at Do Not Call Register, thousands of contacts exposed
Brendon Foye reports: Thousands of email addresses were exposed yesterday in an email sent on behalf of the Do Not Call Register. […] In an email sighted by CRN sent yesterday, DNCR Support informed about a planned service outage scheduled for 25 May. The email contained more than 2,000 email addresses in the “To” field….