On January 25, 2016, UBC responded to numerous FOI requests related to the resignation of Dr. Arvind Gupta from his post as UBC’s President in August 2015. Due to the large number of requests, and the large number of responsive pages, UBC chose to consolidate these requests and posted a package of 861 responsive pages…
Category: Exposure
Fraternal Order of Police hacked, members’ data dumped
Jon Swaine and George Joseph report: Private files belonging to America’s biggest police union, including the names and addresses of officers, forum posts critical of Barack Obama, and controversial contracts made with city authorities, were posted online Thursday after a hacker breached its website. The Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), which says it represents about…
Florida International University data hacked and dumped: claim
On January 16, DataBreaches.net attempted to notify Florida International University about a possible hack after seeing email addresses and plain text passwords of what appear to be faculty and students at FIU have been dumped on a paste site. This site sent FIU a sample of the records in the paste with a link to the paste, noting that there…
Ca: RBC sends wrong RRSP info, including names and SINs, to ‘approximately 500’ customers
Pete Evans reports: The biggest bank in Canada says it accidentally mailed hundreds of incorrect RRSP receipts to the wrong customers, exposing the names, addresses and social insurance numbers of those clients in the process. Royal Bank of Canada says that as a result of what it called a “printing error” a number of its…
Suicidal woman who stuck pencils in her eyes settles part of Internet photo suit
Debbie L. Sklar reports an update to a breach lawsuit reported previously on this site: A hospital patient who stuck pencils in her eyes in a suicide attempt, then found out that a photo of her self-mutilation turned up on the Internet three years later, has agreed to settle the part of her lawsuit against Los…
North Carolina State University investigating claimed hack (UPDATED)
On January 17, DataBreaches.net became aware of data that had been uploaded to a paste site on January 15. It claimed to be data from the cwise subdomain of North Carolina State University’s web site. From that site: The NOAA Cooperative Program for Climate & Weather Impacts on Society and the Environment (CWISE) is a collaboration between NOAA’s National Climatic Data…