The American Lawyer reports: Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle has filed a lawsuit on behalf of its client, the Republic of Kazakhstan, after the Gmail accounts and computers of several government officials were hacked and their contents posted online, exposing communications between the officials and the firm. New York-based Curtis litigation partner Jacques Semmelman, who…
Category: Exposure
Data leak scandal involving personal info of 872 children suppressed, lawyer claims
Today’s Zaman has more on a leak previously noted on this site: A scandal in which the sensitive personal information of more than 850 children was deliberately leaked to a government website has been suppressed, according to the head of a leading children’s rights organization in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır. Bayram Koluman, the head…
Paramedic Fired for Taking Pictures with Dying Patients
Waqas writes: … Tatiana Kulikova is nothing like a compassionate paramedic. The 25 year-old Tatiana has been fired by health officers after viewing the pictures she posted online taken in the back of an ambulance. There are several utterly sickening selfies posted by Tatiana. In one of the images, the Russian blonde can be seen…
SG: Is that your name, address, phone number in the dump?
Grace Chng reports: Personal information is still being improperly collected, used and disposed of, even though there is a new law to protect personal data. Seventy organisations – especially those in retail, healthcare and property – are under investigation following complaints that they used e-mail addresses and other personal information for marketing purposes or collected…
Texas A&M Data Breach of Nearly 4,700 Faculty & Graduate Assistants
KBTX reports: The social security numbers for 4,697 faculty and graduate assistants who taught during the Fall 2014 semester at Texas A&M University were viewable from a department website. The social security numbers were inadvertently displayed along with the individual’s first and last name in the Fall 2014 Semester Teaching Analysis Report (STAR). Upon discovering…
Adventures in breach alerts, Saturday edition
If you’re going to misdirect a fax containing personal information, you probably don’t want to misdirect it to a security firm with a blog. SLC Security reports that they received faxes from William Farrell, CPA of Cary, NC containing what appeared to be payroll information. When they tried to contact the firm using the contact email prominently posted on the firm’s…