Christine Claridge reports: The personal information of up to 7,000 households receiving assistance from the state Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) was sent in error to incorrect or old addresses, according the state Economic Services Administration (ESA). The administration confirmed in a news statement released Thursday that the private information of at least…
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NZAF apologises for email privacy error
The New Zealand AIDS Foundation has apologised after it accidentally shared members’ email addresses in its Christmas e-cards. “The New Zealand AIDS Foundation (NZAF) genuinely regrets that we made a human error when sending out our Christmas e-cards and mistakenly disclosed our member’s email addresses by failing to BCC all the recipients,” Executive Director Shaun…
Pointer: Lanap and Implant Center breach
For those of you who haven’t caught on that I have a slew of other breach reports over on PHIprivacy.net, I thought I’d give you a pointer to a really horrific breach I’ve been covering over there this week. It involves 11,000 patients’ data (yes, including SSN and DOB) winding up on a torrent site…
University of North Carolina investigates data breach, notifies affected people
Carolina officials are investigating a data breach that risked unauthorized online access to personal information concerning some current and former employees, vendors and students. It is believed that more than 6,000 people are affected. On Nov. 11, an information technology manager in the Division of Finance and Administration was informed that some electronic files managed…
PA: Radnor school officials act quickly to respond to computer security breach
Richard Ilgenfritz reports that Radnor Township School District officials are responding to a data breach that occurred after a staff member left a computer folder open and a middle school student obtained personal information on staff that was then shared with others. “Approximately 2,000 current and former employees of the Radnor Township School District are…
NZ: FOI request results in data breach
Radio New Zealand reports: Wellington City Council has admitted its parking contractor accidentally leaked personal details of tens of thousands of motorists to a member of the public who made an official information request. It says contractor Tenix Solutions sent the man information relating to 120,000 tickets, including names and addresses of vehicle owners and…