Hannah Parry reports: The Isle of Man – a renowned tax haven for the rich and famous – has accidentally leaked the personal details of hundreds of taxpayers. An investigation is underway after the blunder by the island’s tax and revenue body released more than 500 individual email addresses. The mistake came shortly before 5pm…
Category: Exposure
Leaving personal info behind during a move, Thursday edition
Records with personal and/or patient information continue to make news when they are left behind during moves. Just this week, we learned that Boyd Hospital left records behind during a move – records that may have legally become the property of an individual who bought the building from the county. While Boyd Hospital seemingly knew…
Email attachment error of the week goes to…
Harbor Homes, whose employee attached a spread sheet with employees’ W-2 info for 2014 to an email to a former employee who had requested a copy of his W-2 information. The spread sheet included W-2 information on 189 New Hampshire residents.
NY: Bellevue Hospital notifying 3,300 patients of breach
Jacobi Medical Center wasn’t the only hospital run by the Health & Hospitals Corporation that reported a breach on April 28. Bellevue Hospital Center also reported one: The incident in question occurred on January 15, 2015 and was discovered on February 27, 2015 when, in the course of HHC’s monitoring of outgoing emails, we identified…
Chicago Public Schools breach affects 4,000 students
Melissa Sanchez reports: CPS mistakenly shared the names, home addresses, phone numbers, disability status and other personal information of 4,000 students to five vendors seeking to do business with the district. After learning of the unusual data breach, CPS officials say they took steps to remedy their actions. These include instructing the companies to dispose…
Hacker data dumps scrape to make huge grey marketing database
Darren Pauli reports: Former password collector Steve Thomas plans to tear up the contact broker market by offering a database of 30 million names for free, all built on data sourced by scraping the web. The former PwnedList founder, and now SalesMaple CEO, says the database will soon to balloon to almost 100 million records….