Jakob Emerson reports: Sangamon County Animal Control (SCAC) is embroiled in a community controversy once again. SCAC is responsible for the sharing of uncensored photos of Illinois driver’s licenses to the internet in the place of photos of animals available for adoption at the facility. Anyone in the world with an internet connection could see photos, names,…
Category: Exposure
Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet announces data security breach
Seth Austin reports: The Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet (EEC) announced they discovered a data security breach on September 8, 2021. According to EEC, unredacted mining permit applications containing some mine owners’ and controllers’ personal information was available for public inspection at Department of Natural Resources’ field offices and on an EEC hosted website. Internal…
OH: Bay Village school district accidentally releases students’ personal info, including grades, to all families
Ian Cross reports: Personal information for the entire Bay Village High School senior class, including grades, student ID numbers and test scores, was accidentally emailed to the families of each senior last week, according to a notice sent to families in the district. At about 8:53 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 23, a Bay High School…
A mailing error with troubling potential
We have all read about mailing errors by now. In fact, such errors are one of the biggest types of HIPAA breaches — providing one patient’s information to another, or a mail merge error, or something similar. But here’s a case in the U.K. that serves as a painful reminder that such breaches can have…
Popular adult cam chat exposed users data: report
Bob Diachenko reports: On Nov 5th, I discovered an exposed database that appeared to belong to live sex cam website Stripchat. The exposed database makes multiple references to Stripchat and consists of nearly 200 million records. Exposed data includes email addresses, usernames, and IP addresses, among other info, seemingly about the site’s users and models….
VA: Hundreds of parents, students, staff at risk of identity theft as personal records found tossed on floor at Old Pulaski Middle School
Kelsey Jean-Baptiste reports: Concerns about confidential records being found thrown on the ground of the Old Pulaski Middle School have many worried. Hundreds of students, teachers, and staff are now at risk of having their private information stolen. Pulaski School superintendent, Dr. Kevin Siers says the documents date back to the 1970s. In pictures given…