Jeff John Roberts reports on a new report and analysis by Gemini Advisory: Paying parking tickets or municipal water taxes is never fun—and it’s even worse when hackers have compromised your town’s payment system. Yet, that’s what happened in dozens of towns across the U.S. where cyber crooks have made off with the personal data…
Category: Government Sector
IE: Health body apologizes for email gaffe exposing email addresses of 200 job applicants
A statutory health body has apologised for a data breach in which the email addresses of unsuccessful applicants to a job were mistakenly shared. In an email informing individuals that their application had been unsuccessful, the email addresses of about 200 other applicants were shared. The email, seen by TheJournal.ie, was sent by the Pre-Hospital Emergency…
MN: Wright County finally notifying residents of data breach due to employee transferring data to his home computer
Courtney Godfrey reports: Taking work home with you sounds like something a hardworking employee would do, unless that work includes private, sensitive data like it did with one employee in Wright County. The county knew about the data breach for seven months before notifying possible victims. It wasn’t until FOX 9 filed a public records…
Ca: Hundreds of N.W.T. health records found at Fort Simpson dump
Hilary Bird reports: An N.W.T man says he found hundreds of confidential medical records at the Fort Simpson dump. The documents contain detailed information about patients’ mental health and history of drug use, including applications to addictions treatment facilities, progress reports from those facilities, and detailed notes from one-on-one counselling sessions. The documents, many of…
Personal information of 541k individuals has been stolen from an emergency contact database after the website of the French Ministry of Europe breached
Sergiu Gatlan reports: According to the Ministry’s public statement, the hackers managed to get their hands on the names, phone numbers, and email addresses of all people who had an account on the French Ariane emergency contact database. The platform is used by the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs to allow citizens traveling abroad to…
Breaches have consequences: Finnish trafi safety boss resigns over privacy breach
YLE reports: The head of the Finnish Transport Safety Agency Mia Nykopp has resigned after a privacy breach that allowed details about every driver in the country to be easily accessible online. […] Since July it has been possible to view details of every driver’s license online, and to check if they have a valid license. Trafi shut…