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WestJet app data breach reveals other people’s personal information

Posted on August 18, 2022 by Dissent

Stephen Hunt reports: WestJet says it’s investigating a technical glitch on its app that allowed users to see other people’s profiles. CTV News first learned of the issue Wednesday afternoon from a viewer and a Twitter post that indicated that once you logged on to the airline’s app, you could see the personal information of…

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Ca: St. Joe’s contacting 230 patients whose health records were faxed to wrong people

Posted on August 17, 2022 by Dissent

Sebastian Bron reports: About 230 patients at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton had their health records recently faxed to the wrong person in what the hospital attributed to an “error.” St. Joe’s said in a release Friday that the misdirected faxes — which occurred between 2020 and 2021 — came to light after a comprehensive review…

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No Injury = No Article III Standing in Data Breach Class Action

Posted on August 6, 2022 by Dissent

Amy Brown Doolittle of Squire Patton Boggs writes: As we have discussed here at CPW, one of the biggest challenges facing a plaintiff in a data breach class action is to establish an injury from the alleged data breach. Earlier this week, in David De Midicis v. Ally Bank & Ally Fin., Inc., 2022 U.S. Dist. LEXIS…

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City of Detroit retirees data breach causes concern

Posted on July 28, 2022 by Dissent

Randy Wimbley and David Komer report: …. It’s what Weldon. a Detroit retiree, stumbled upon Wednesday morning after setting up her account on the City of Detroit retirement system’s new online program. “I saw several links called lists, and I clicked on one – and it was my name and this first list was eight…

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Top secret documents scattered in street after careless disposal by German Chancellor Scholz

Posted on July 27, 2022 by Dissent

Emma Crabtree reports: The Chancellor’s bin bags were placed outside his private apartment and torn open by foxes, leaving the documents open in public. Multiple news sources have since criticised the German leader for using such a careless disposal method. Read more at Express. The documents were unshredded and just bagged and binned, it seems.

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UT: Technical problem causes security breach in Tooele County School District, may have exposed 1000 students’ info

Posted on July 22, 2022 by Dissent

Debbie Worthen reports: Hundreds of students’ personal information was potentially compromised in what the Tooele County School District called a “technical problem” as the district switched from Aspire to Skyward. Skyward is a software company specializing in K-12 school management. It includes student records and personal information. This week, families of the over 21,000 students…

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