From the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), with emphasis added by me: The prison service in Northern Ireland has been warned by the UK data protection regulator after a filing cabinet containing Maze Prison records was unwittingly sold at auction. The incident occurred in 2004 when a cabinet that officials thought was empty was sold at…
Category: Exposure
File containing asylum seekers’ data downloaded in China, Russia and Egypt
Paul Farrell and Oliver Laughland report: A file containing the personal details of almost 10,000 people in detention was accessed in 16 countries, including China, Egypt, Malaysia, Pakistan and Russia, raising further concerns that asylum seekers returned to their countries of origin or their families may be at risk of persecution. In February the immigration…
Inland Empire Colleges Report E-mail Error May Have Exposed More than 35,000 Students’ Information
Tony Shin and Kelly Goff report: Confidential information about more than 35,000 students enrolled at community colleges in Riverside County may have been compromised, the district said in a letter Monday. The records affected belong to students enrolled during the spring 2014 semester at Riverside City, Norco and Moreno Valley colleges. A database containing information…
AU: Optus exposes customers’ silent listings
Ben Grubb reports: Optus says it mistakenly released an undisclosed number of customers’ names, mobile numbers and addresses to Sensis, which led to them being published in the White Pages. The details exposed were of those who requested their number be kept silent, or private. The telco, which began notifying customers about the issue last…
No information security breach found in wake of charter school’s mailer to Jersey City parents
Michaelangelo Conte reports: A Sherman Avenue charter school did not access the Jersey City school system’s computers to obtain personal information about district students for a mailer, a district official said this afternoon. The school district had been concerned that the METS Charter School obtained the information form the city school data system but an…
AU: Review blames Immigration for data breach exposing 10,000 detainees
Paul Farrell and Oliver Laughland report: A major data breach that exposed the personal details of almost 10,000 people in detention was caused by Immigration Department failures to check and approve documents for web publication, an independent review has found. The report by management consultants KPMG, which was published on Thursday, reveals that the document containing…