Amber Downing reports: A local couple is suing a cell phone repair company after an employee allegedly posted dozens of pornographic images of them on social media. Dane Jaskinia said he sent his Samsung phone in for repairs in April 2015 after the charge port broke. Sprint sent the phone to Repair Services Inc. in Plano. A…
Category: Exposure
Ca: Western University students’ personal information published online
Iain Boekhoff reports: The University is investigating after a document containing personal information of 2014–15 first-year main campus students was made publicly available online. The downloadable Excel document contains the full names, Western email addresses, what residence they were in, home phone number, cell phone number and program or faculty of current second-year students. That…
MaineGeneral breach update: investigation revealed additional PHI compromised
There’s an update to a breach reported by MaineGeneral Health in December after the FBI alerted them in November that information had been found on an external web site. At the time of their December notification, MG had noted that the scope of the incident was still under investigation. Today, they issued a press release with…
AU: Canberra psychology clinic accidentally reveals clients’ personal details in email
Megan Gorrey reports that an email gaffe by psychology clinic exposed more than 200 patients’ email addresses to each other. Northside Psychology, which has offices in Hawker, Gungahlin and Erindale, admitted a “serious administrative error” meant the email addresses of all recipients were included in a message about a mindfulness seminar sent to more than 200 people on Tuesday. […] “The list…
Improper redaction exposed Virginia employees’ personal info
Earlier this week, Jigsaw Security noted that they had discovered that improper redaction of documents posted on the Virginia Dept of Human Resource Management website was potentially exposing employees’ personal information: A PDF posted by this organization contained information that was obfuscated by blocks but was a layered image so if you edit the document the…
Disclosure of patient’s mental health status and treatment results in strong response by Serbia’s Commissioner of Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection
Marko Popovic and Bogdan Ivaniševic of BDK Advokati write: In December 2015, a journalist disclosed one patient’s health data in a TV show. The data were related to the patient’s mental health and his treatment in the mental health clinic “Dr Laza Lazarevic”, in Belgrade. The Serbian Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection (“Commissioner”)…