The Karin Spaink blog reports: Bright, a magazine about technology and internet, had an error on the site that leaked the personal data – name, home address, bank account, mobile number – of people who had recently subscribed through the website. Google had already indexed the data, as security expert and recent subscriber Geert Booster…
Category: Exposure
MA: Patients’ files poised at trash bin
Kay Lazar of The Boston Globe reports: Hundreds of medical records kept by a longtime Acton family doctor who abruptly closed his practice last year are about to be destroyed, leaving patients without crucial information and exposing a gap in state law about who owns abandoned medical records. On April 8, a Lynn storage company…
UK: Medical records found in corridor
An investigation has been launched into why crates of medical records were left lying unattended in a corridor at a Scottish hospital. The records, which contained highly personal information, were discovered by a member of the public at the Southern General hospital in Glasgow. Read more on BBC.
Xcel Energy notifies employees of small, contained breach
Through its lawyers, Xcel Energy notified (pdf) the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that an email error by an employee resulted in the names and Social Security numbers of a number of employees being distributed to other Xcel employees and managers who should not have received the Social Security numbers. The company’s internal investigation indicated…
UT: Students’ personal information accidentally e-mailed to other students
Randall Jeppesen reports: Thousands of BYU [Brigham Young University] students got a glimpse at some of their fellow students’ private information. With the click of a mouse, a list with some BYU students’ names, their ID numbers, GPAs, e-mail addresses and home addresses was sent to 2,500 students in the College of Humanities. “It was…
NZ: Massey University Experiences Serious Breach Of Security
The Massey University intranet system utilised by students from all across New Zealand, MyMassey, is under scrutiny after a severe breach of security left thousands of students able to access other people’s highly sensitive information. Rawa Karetai, President of the Albany Students’ Association, was one of the first students to notice this critical error: “I…