May 2- 6 is Teacher Appreciation Week. Showing appreciation for teachers generally does not include exposing their identity information, but unfortunately, that’s what happened in Palm Beach County School District. The district issued a statement about the unintended disclosure to a vendor: Superintendent Robert Avossa has alerted employees that approximately 5,800 teachers had their Social…
Category: Exposure
Panama Papers source breaks silence over ‘scale of injustices’
Luke Harding reports: The whistleblower behind the Panama Papers broke their silence on Friday to explain in detail how the injustices of offshore tax havens drove them to the biggest data leak in history. The source, whose identity and gender remain a secret, denied being a spy. “For the record, I do not work for any government…
Ca: Privacy breach gave Norfolk County employees access to colleagues’ banking info, SIN numbers
J.P. Antonacci reports: Richard Shaw was surprised when a courier showed up at his house Friday morning with a letter from Norfolk County informing him that his personal information had been accidentally made available without his permission. Shaw, a volunteer firefighter in Teeterville, was one of 1,200 county employees whose name, home address, phone number,…
CA: Humboldt County Notice of Data Breach
May 2, 2016 The County of Humboldt announced today that five computer terminals used by the public in an office on the fifth floor of the county courthouse were misconfigured by a third-party software provider, potentially allowing access to limited confidential information. On April 4, 2016, the county learned that individuals accessing parcel information in…
UK: Health trust fined after data breach
ITV reports: A health trust has been hit with a £185,000 fine after it posted the private details of thousands of members of staff – including their sexual orientation – on its website. Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust inadvertently published workers’ confidential data which also included their National Insurance number, date of birth and…
(CORRECTED) QNB hackers to leak more data of another big bank soon – Kaspersky
It sounds like big trouble is brewing for a bank that has yet to be named. Naushad K. Cherrayil reports: The hackers who attacked Qatar National Bank last week have attacked a second bank and are set to leak more data, a security expert told Gulf News on Monday. “They have announced that they are going to…