NBC2 reports: In less than ten minutes searching through Lee County scrap yards we found W2’s, bank statements, check books, Social Security numbers, date of birth and medical records. […] During our search we found numerous arrest reports and witness statements sitting in a retired Cape Coral Police squad car inside a scrap yard…. We found…
Category: Exposure
NJ: Personal tax records found in Edison trash
Another case where records in a storage unit wind up in the wild when the owner falls behind on storage rent. News12 New Jersey reports: Hundreds of old tax documents with personal information on them were found left out in the trash Tuesday in Edison. The boxes, about 12 in all, were from Tax DRX,…
UK: Fax errors lead to data breach at Northumbria NHS Trust
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust with an undertaking committing the trust to improving the way it handles patients’ information. The action comes after the trust mistakenly sent five faxes containing information relating to the care of several patients to a member of the public. The faxes should have been sent…
Ca: Patient lab results faxed to business owner, not doctor
CBC reports: A man in western Newfoundland says he has once again received confidential medical information from a health authority on his fax machine by mistake. David Simmons said he received patient laboratory test results to his company’s fax machine from Western Health on three occasions in 2012. This winter, he received test results from Central Health. Read more on…
Hong Kong’s fast food chain Cafe de Coral admits accidental data leak
Hong Kong’s local fast food chain Cafe de Coral has accidentally leaked the personal details of members of its bonus-point program, it said on Friday. The company said the mistake was made last month in an email to a third party, which it did not identify, adding the personal details include names, phone numbers, email…
Ca: Privacy Breach Involving Big Game Licence Applications
VOCM reports: There’s word of another privacy breach involving provincial government mail-outs, this time involving big game licence applications. The provincial government says it is aware of at least 15 instances where people who had applied for big game licences received their own application, and the application intended for another individual. There have also been…