From the Information Commissioner’s Office: An undertaking to comply with the seventh data protection principle has been signed by the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. This follows incidents where personal data relating to a number of individuals was sent to unintended recipients due to typing errors in the address of the correspondence. On investigation…
Category: Exposure
Volcano Corporation notifies employees after e-mail breach
Add San Diego-based Volcano Corporation to your list of firms reporting breaches involving e-mail attachment errors. Volcano Corporation reports that the error was made – and detected – on May 21, when a spreadsheet was inadvertently attached to an e-mail sent to some employees about their retirement account. The spreadsheet included employees’ names, email addresses…
Blue Shield of California notifies some members of exposure breach following software update
Software updates are an all-too-common source of breaches. Here’s another one, this involving Blue Shield of California. From their notification to the California Attorney General’s Office: As the (unintended) result of a computer code update Blue Shield made to the website on May 9, three users who logged into their own website accounts simultaneously with…
PA: Boxes Of Cloverleaf YMCA Employees’ Personal Information Found In Dumpster
Lynne Hayes-Freeland reports: A local YMCA is investigating after boxes of documents containing employees’ personal information were found in a dumpster. In all, hundreds of documents containing personal information about Cloverleaf YMCA employees were found Monday. Read more on CBS Pittsburgh.
Medical pot users seek class action against Health Canada
Claire Mellor reports: Lawyers representing plaintiffs in a proposed class action, claiming Health Canada breached privacy rights and jeopardized the safety of medical marijuana users, will be seeking damages of up to $20,000 per person, a court in Halifax heard Wednesday. Federal Court Justice Michael Phelan is hearing a certification application for a proposed class…
Private medical data of 6,600 Texans was exposed on Internet for up to 8 years
J. David McSwane reports: Confidential medical records of more than 6,600 Medicaid patients in Texas were unintentionally made public for up to 8 years via the Internet by the Department of Aging and Disability Services. The agency, which is charged with assisting some of the state’s most vulnerable people, became aware of the breach in…