Christopher Knaus and Michael Inman report: An Australian spy agency says it has no way of knowing who has obtained a “highly sensitive” report meant for our top allies after it was allegedly leaked by a junior defence bureaucrat on an online forum. In an embarrassing security breach, a 21-year-old Department of Defence graduate allegedly managed to download a secret…
Category: Exposure
Ca: “Dr. Disgrace” 1st to face Manitoba’s PHIA charges
Dean Pritchard reports: A former city doctor with a host of prior legal woes was back in Winnipeg court Friday charged with abandoning thousands of patient medical records at his shuttered medical clinic. George Korol, 62, pleaded guilty to two counts of failing to protect personal health information and was fined $5,000. Korol is the…
Prima CARE notifying patients after binders with protected health information found in bushes
According to its web site, Prima CARE, P.C. is a large, multi-specialty medical group serving southeastern New England. Also according to their web site, a former employee improperly discarded binders with protected health information. A notice linked from their home page explains: Prima CARE has Recovered Documents Containing Patient Information On June 4, 2015, Prima CARE…
AU: Sensis publishes hundreds of silent numbers online
Andrew Sadauskas reports: Sensis and Telstra are investigating a privacy breach that led to the publication of the unlisted phone numbers and addresses of at least 230 residential and business customers. At least 80 residential customers with unlisted numbers have had their phone numbers, addresses and, in some cases, part of their names published in…
AZ: Kingman resident finds DCS investigation documents in dumpster
Andrew Hasbun reports that a dumpster diver found documents from the Arizona Department of Child Safety. The documents, which were found in Kingman, not only contained personal information such as names and social security numbers, but they reportedly contained detailed descriptions of investigations. Hasbun reports: Some of the documents date back to 2012, a few of…
NZ: Investigation after doctors’ prescriptions strewn through neighbourhood
Jared Nicoll reports: An investigation is under way after piles of doctors’ prescriptions were found scattered through a Lower Hutt neighbourhood. Epuni St residents scraped up about 100 private prescriptions featuring patient’s names, addresses and medication from the road on Monday afternoon. They included a child’s asthma medication, and an elderly woman’s codeine prescription, issued…