Tom Potter reports a breach involving Colchester Borough Council: An urgent probe has been launched into how the personal details of benefit claimants were disclosed to some Colchester householders. The borough council is investigating the breach of personal data during the delivery of housing benefit notification letters to residents last week. […] The council said…
Category: Exposure
Equifax mistakenly sends woman 300 other people’s credit reports
So it appears that Equifax mistakenly sent a woman in Maine 300 other people’s credit reports after she requested her own. Read about it on WGME and BDN. So far, Equifax hasn’t offered any explanation as to how this occurred, but given how embarrassing this is for them, I’m sure they’ll follow up.
Ca: Education ministry notifies police after website security breached and private email addresses obtained
Last week, Ontario’s Ministry of Education reported that 5,000 Ontarians’ e-mail addresses had been acquired and leaked from its web site. The data were dumped on Pastebin, in a post that is no longer available. Today, the Brampton Guardian reports: The government said it has notified the Ontario Provincial Police and the Office of the…
Ca: Computer network security breach at Limestone District School Board
CKWS TV reports: The Limestone District School Board’s information technology department is trying to find out how a folder with personal information on staff became public – albeit for a short period of time. The information concerns all current board employees and past employees back to 2001. A memo to all staff – obtained by…
As threatened, Rex Mundi dumps Labio patients’ diagnostic test results
As they had threatened to do if Labio did not pay them €20,000, the hacker collective known as Rex Mundi has started dumping/disclosing identifiable patient data. The dump was announced on Twitter by the @RexMundi2015 account. DataBreaches.net confirmed that the records appear to be the results of lab tests performed on patients whose names, dates…
AU: Ivanhoe Grammar under fire for exposing former students in email about alleged sex offenses
Ashley Argoon and Kathryn Powley report: Ivanhoe Grammar School has come under further fire after identifying alumni in an email about alleged historic sex offences against a student. In a potential breach of privacy, the posh school revealed the private email addresses of 1000 past students to whom it wrote offering counselling services after veteran…