Aitor Hernandez-Morales reports: Lisbon Mayor Fernando Medina is facing calls for his resignation as a result of his government’s decision to share the personal information of at least three Lisbon-based Russian dissidents with Russian authorities. Municipal authorities obtained the personal data when the dissidents applied to hold a rally to protest the arrest of Russian…
Category: Exposure
N.J. school worker accidentally leaked Social Security numbers of staff to public
Anthony G. Attrino reports: Hundreds of employees in the Leonia School District in Bergen County were exposed to a data breach last month when an office worker inadvertently linked their personal information to an online meeting agenda. The Social Security numbers of about 300 teachers, custodians and administrators were exposed to the public for four…
GA: Hundreds of peoples’ medical records from Hope Medical found along a road
Justin Gray reports: Medical records for hundreds of patients were found dumped along the side of a road in South Fulton County. Channel 2 Action News has learned that those records contained everything from Social Security numbers to private medical information. Channel 2 investigative reporter Justin Gray tracked down where the records came from. Hope Medical told…
BioTel Heart Notice of Breach of Personal Information
Cardiac biotelemetry firm BioTel seems to be issuing public notices about a data leak incident first reported on this site in August, 2020. The data were only secured when Amazon was contacted by a researcher and asked to reach out to their customer to secure the data. Neither BioTel nor its vendor had responded to…
Ca: More than 1,000 NWT residents’ student loan information breached
Emily Blake reports: More than 1,000 NWT residents had private information regarding their student loans mistakenly shared in an email from the Department of Education, Culture, and Employment earlier this year. According to a notice sent on behalf of the deputy minister of the department to those affected, information on the amount of interest they…
Uk: ‘A scandal’ – Boxes of patient medical records found in abandoned care home
Sabrina Johnson reports: Dozens of confidential patient records, staff notes and sensitive files have been found in a derelict unsecured Norfolk care home, in what has been branded a “serious breach” of data protection. Pine Heath nursing home in High Kelling, near Holt, closed suddenly in May 2017 after it was placed in special measures after being…