Julie Hare reports: The names and details of thousands of university academic union members have been accidentally made public. Lists of names, contact details and positions of the National Tertiary Education Union‘s members at five universities appear to have been collated with the intention of contacting each person to solicit funds to support a campaign…
Category: Exposure
Tyler Junior College data leak exposed housing applicants’ Social Security numbers and dates of birth
I’ve occasionally commented that consumers shouldn’t have to go to the media to get a breach or data leak addressed. Neither should students, but that’s what happened this week to Kierra Perry. Perry applied to Tyler Junior College in Texas. As part of the process, she also applied for housing and completed the background check…
UK: Failure to adequately redact results in undertaking for Treasury Solicitor’s Department
In the UK, the Treasury Solicitor’s Department has signed an undertaking with the Information Commissioenr’s Office. As described in the undertaking, there had been a number self-reported breaches involving exposure of individuals’ information due to incomplete redactions or failure to fully check: The Information Commissioner (the ‘Commissioner’) was contacted by the data controller on 6…
Indiana University notifying 146,000 current & former students that details were accessed by webcrawlers over 11-month period
Indiana University issued the following statement today: Indiana University notified the Indiana attorney general’s office today of the potential exposure of personal data for some students and recent graduates. The data potentially at risk for disclosure includes names, addresses and Social Security numbers for approximately 146,000 students and recent graduates across seven IU campuses who…
Asylum seeker data breach: no decision yet on whether to inform those affected
Daniel Hurst reports: Australia’s top immigration bureaucrat has told a Senate committee he is yet to make a call on whether asylum seekers will be told that his department released their confidential personal details on its website. Martin Bowles, secretary of the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, characterised the data breach as “regrettable” but…
OR: Office landlord fined after trashing mortgage records in course of eviction
Eliot Njus reports: The owners of a Northeast Portland office building have been fined after a state regulator said its cleaning service threw 30 boxes of mortgage records into an unlocked trash bin while evicting a mortgage company. The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services has ordered 122nd Group LLC to pay $5,000 for failing to…