Matthew Braga reports: The Office of Canada’s Privacy Commissioner has declined to name 11 Canadian websites found to be leaking personal information to third parties without the knowledge of users, but revealed in a blog post that privacy practices had improved after being notified of the government’s concerns. A study found that user names, email…
Category: Exposure
Australian customers’ private phone calls online
Ben Grubb reports: “This call may be recorded for training and quality purposes.” And perhaps inadvertently uploaded to the internet if you’re a customer of a certain Australian telco. Recorded voice contracts containing personally identifiable information between telco IF Telecom and its customers have been found online by an Australian security expert while performing a…
NY: Town of Brookhaven data breach ‘was clerical error,’ officials say
Deon J. Hampton reports: Brookhaven Supervisor Edward P. Romaine on Thursday handed off an investigation into the inadvertent online posting of personal information to the town’s law department — the same unit that made the mistake. […] Town officials did not release the name of the employee who mistakenly made public the Social Security numbers…
Slow learning curve, Sunday edition
Some breach types are so well-known and easy to prevent that it’s hard to understand why they keep occurring. In December, the National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA) – International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) sent out its generic summary of benefits coverage to Family Medical Care Plan enrollees. No individual-specific medical information or details were included,…
Novato’s Academy Studios closes doors; sensitive employee records found in waste container
Richard Halstead reports: Academy Studios of Novato, which built exhibits for some of the top museums in the world, closed in April after more than 23 years in business. In a related development, an auction house scrambled to gather the company’s paperwork last week after reports that personnel records containing sensitive information on former Academy…
Utah DMV reveals data breach discovered in March
Michael McFall reports: A Utah Division of Motor Vehicles employee was fired in March after the agency discovered she allegedly gave out people’s personal information. In response to a Salt Lake Tribune inquiry, DMV spokesman Charlie Roberts confirmed that the agency first learned from the Salt Lake City Fire Department in mid-March that the employee, who was…