Daisy Dumas reports: It is the oldest PR mistake in the book — and possibly the last thing an already weakened Labor Party ally needs. Labor-aligned federal government lobbying firm Hawker Britton has accidentally revealed its contacts database in an email sent on Thursday afternoon. The message was sent to to more than 1000 email addresses,…
Category: Exposure
Massachusetts DESE finds Tewksbury data breach violated state law
In April, this site noted what I described as a “horrific” breach involving the Tewksbury public schools. A document included in a 222-page School Committee packet that had been publicly available online not only exposed personal and private details for the out of district placements of 83 special education students, but it rated their parents according…
More than 1,000 employees in Anchorage veterans administration notified of breach due to employee error
On June 10, the Salt Lake City Regional Office of the Veterans Administration was notified that the The Wounded Warrior Program Office in Seattle had received a box from a veteran in Anchorage. The veteran had previously gone to the Anchorage office in April to request a copy of her VA file, and several weeks later, had returned to…
Almost 500 veterans notified of breach due to mailing label errors by medical supply vendor
A Veterans Administration incident report started with a report that 121 patients of the Charleston, SC facility received medical supplies from Medline Industries intended for 121 other patients. The error was the medical supplier’s packing error. It seems that in April, the supplier had installed a new automated system for applying shipping labels to packages, and the new…
Albuquerque veterans’ information exposed in human error breach
Errors continue to plague the Veterans Administration System. In its June report, the Albuquerque VA reported that a veteran returned a a list to the Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom (OEF-OIF) Office. He had found the list containing 73 veterans’ full names and full Social Security Numbers with appointment dates in paperwork he had picked up…
Ca: Victoria urologist suspended, fined $20,000 for breach of privacy
Following up on a previously reported breach from June, 2013, Cindy E. Harnett reports: The College of Physicians and Surgeons has disciplined a Victoria urologist for photographing an unconscious patient in 2013 for the purpose of ridicule, suspending his privileges for up to six months and issuing a $20,000 fine. Dr. John Francis Joseph David Kinahan of…