The following statement was issued by Humboldt State University yesterday: Humboldt State University is alerting approximately 5,700 students to take precautions against identity theft in the wake of a single incident involving one student’s personal information. The affected files have been secured and HSU has verified it was a single incident. It is unlikely the privacy and…
Category: Exposure
UK: Lancashire Constabulary receives penalty after loss of missing person’s report
A breach that was reported on this blog last July has resulted in a fine and an undertaking for the Lancashire constabulary. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has served a monetary penalty of £70,000 to Lancashire Constabulary after papers containing sensitive information about a 15 year old girl were found on a street in Blackpool. This is…
1,300 Brigham Young University students’ information released accidentally
Paige Fieldsted reports: The personal information of hundreds of international students at BYU was inadvertently released by email Monday. The message was sent by a staff member in the University Advisement Center who was sending out a notice of a career workshop, but a complete list of students’ names, email addresses, phone numbers and student…
NZ: Privacy breach on 9000 ACC claims (updated)
Phil Kitchin reports on a breach involving sensitive personal information in New Zealand: Private details of more than 9000 ACC claims – some featuring well-known people – have been emailed to a person who should not have received them, in what is being described as one of the worst privacy breaches in New Zealand history….
State agency leaves Arizonans’ sensitive documents in dumpster
Susan Casper reports on what some dumpster divers found in Payson, Arizona and the state agency’s response: The women’s hunt for savings turns up thousands of sensitive documents exposing the personal information of hundreds of Arizonans; confidential material a thief could use to steal your identity sitting at the bottom of a recycling bin. “There’s…
Belfast city councillors’ bank details disclosed in data foul-up
Amanda Poole reports on another case where a response for records results in a data breach: Belfast city councillors were forced to cancel their bank cards last night after a major security breach in which a council worker accidentally released all their personal information to a member of the public. An internal investigation is now…