Lucy Cormack reports: The personal details of almost 200,000 injured workers were mistakenly shared with 587 employers and insurance brokers in a major privacy data breach by embattled state insurer icare last month. A senior source with direct knowledge of the breach said the details of 193,000 employees were contained in spreadsheets that were mistakenly…
Category: Exposure
Pegasus Airlines data breach exposes 6.5TB of flight and crew data
Pegasus Airlines, a Turkish low-cost carrier, has accidentally leaked around 6.5TB of personal information of flight crew, flight data, and source code after misconfiguring an AWS bucket. Read more at Teiss.
Trust Stamp, a facial recognition company with a $7.2 million ICE contract, had dozens of peoples’ data exposed in breach
Caroline Haskins reports: Trust Stamp, a government contractor that develops facial recognition and surveillance tools for agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement, left the personal information of several dozen people unsecured on a breached database, Insider has learned. This information included names, birthdays, home addresses, and driver’s license data. An anonymous tipster who said they…
Texas Department of Insurance leak went undetected for three years — state audit
On April 5, DataBreaches reported: And then there’s the Texas Department of Insurance. They informed the Texas Attorney General’s office that 1,800,000 Texas were affected by a leak involving names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, parts or all of Social Security numbers, and information about injuries and workers’ compensation claims. Anyone who had claim…
UK: Central Bedfordshire Council leaked special educational needs students’ personal details
It’s a council two-fer today it seems when it comes to breaches of students’ information. First we had the Cornwall Council item. Now we learn about how Central Bedfordshire Council leaked the details of ‘dozens and dozens’ of special educational need (SEND) pupils. The council leaked the details when responding to a Freedom of Information (FOI)…
UK: Cornwall Council Data Breach
The Cornwall council accidentally published the personal details of five schoolchildren in publicly accessible meeting documents. Cornwall Council has apologized for the data breach, including their names, addresses, and dates of birth. It made the error when it published online documents for a meeting of its School Transport Appeals Committee. Source: InformationSecurityBuzz.