Randy L. Key reports: Georgia’s Department of Human Services Division of Aging Services has notified approximately 3,000 clients in the Community Care Services Program of an unauthorized disclosure of their protected health information. The Department has identified the root cause of the issue, which involved the inadvertent disclosure of certain health diagnoses of affected program…
Category: Exposure
King’s College London student data breach results in underaking
King’s College London fell afoul of the Data Protection Act, it seems. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) learned that a spreadsheet containing personal data -including exam results – of 1831 students and applicants was sent in error to 22 students. Of note, the spreadsheet had been worked on by and transferred between several employees prior to being sent out…
AU: Labor lobbyist Hawker Britton makes embarrassing email error
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,…
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…