From BBC: An appeal hearing has overturned a £250,000 fine for Scottish Borders Council over data protection failings. The Information Commissioner’s Office issued the Monetary Penalty Notice (MPN) in September last year. SBC paid the fine to get a 20% discount but lodged an appeal saying the scale of it was “very disappointing”. A four-day…
Category: Exposure
18,000 Social Security numbers printed on outside of U.Va. student mailings
The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports: The Social Security numbers of 18,700 University of Virginia students appeared on the address labels of health insurance brochures mailed across the country in the latest in a string of breaches at the state’s flagship university. Read more on their site.
NASA ARC Memo: Breach of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) – July 1, 2013
Status Report Source: Ames Research Center Subject: Breach of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) – July 1, 2013 From: ARC-HR Date: July 10, 2013 On Monday July 1, 2013 an email message was sent to all Civil Servants titled “Supreme Court Decision on the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and Federal Employee Benefits.” The email was…
Digging in their heels: Wyndham and LabMD challenge FTC’s authority in data security cases
Cross-posted from PHIprivacy.net: Adam Greenberg reports on two cases where businesses have challenged the FTC’s authority in data security cases. Although Wyndham’s challenge has been discussed in detail on DataBreaches.net (see these posts), I haven’t really described the LabMD case until now. In the LabMD case, the Atlanta Business Chronicle reported last year: The federal agency…
FL: Student information found in private school’s dumpster
WINK reports: Students’ grades, addresses and phone numbers… found sitting in a dumpster for anyone to see. That’s what one man found next to Bishop Verot High School. He worried it could get into the wrong hands. On the side of the school, there are dumpsters. They’re on school property, but anyone can access them….
Oops. Japanese Government Shares Internal E-Mails on Google
Akiko Fujita reports: You may want to think twice the next time you skip over those privacy settings online. Government ministries in Japan are playing damage control after accidentally leaking internal emails on Google Groups, unaware that the site’s default settings would make their private conversations public. A spokesman with the Ministry of Environment tells…