WWMT reports that Borgess Rheumatology is notifying approximately 700 patients who received letters intended for other patients. The mailing error occurred on December 9, 2015, and the medical practice learned of their error on December 10 and began contacting affected patients. According to a statement the news channel received, the letters contained names of patients and the…
Category: Exposure
NZ: Ministry investigates WINZ privacy breach
Radio New Zealand reports: The Department of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Social Development are investigating a privacy breach after a Work and Income client accessed someone else’s information. Yesterday, the man told RNZ he was trying to access his WINZ account through government’s RealMe identity verification system and got another client’s details. The man…
IA: Medicap Pharmacy warns of possible data breach (UPDATED)
Matthew Patane reports: Medicap Pharmacy is warning customers about a possible data breach. The company said in a notice that an external hard drive was “inadvertently” disposed of on Nov. 5, 2015. The hard drive contained personal information. Medicap believed all of the information was encrypted, but said it learned on Dec. 3 that some information did…
Manitoba Victim Services discloses confidential information to wrong person
Sean Leslie reports: A voicemail left by a victim services worker revealed confidential information about an incident concerning the welfare of a child to a person with no connection to the people involved. The voicemail contains the names and birth dates of two parents, a case number and allegations of behavior that could affect the…
Israeli border police officer indicted for leaking personal information
Noam Dvir reports on yet another “little” breach that could cause big harm to individuals involved: A Border Police officer was on Wednesday indicted for abusing his authority and violating privacy, after he allegedly passed on a woman’s personal information to the far-right Lehava organization. The incident took place in December 2014, when the officer in question,…
NASA Denies Hackers Hijacked Its Drone
There’s an update to a previously claimed hack involving NASA. Thomas CLaburn reports that NASA is investigating a claimed hack, but denies that its drone was hacked: “Control of our Global Hawk aircraft was not compromised,” said Beutel. “NASA has no evidence to indicate the alleged hacked data are anything other than already publicly available…