CBC News reports: Fifty boxes of records containing “sensitive personal information” spent nearly three weeks sitting in a central area of the Grand Falls-Windsor Department of Transportation and Works depot this spring, according to Donovan Molloy, the province’s privacy commissioner. “It’s one of the most serious inadvertent breaches that I’ve seen in my term as…
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UK: York council alerted that people’s personal info from council phone app was accessible to others
From YorkMix: Hackers have obtained personal data belonging to users of York council’s environmental app, it has emerged this weekend. City of York Council has contacted police and has permanently taken down its One Planet York app, following the data breach. The app supported the council’s broader One Planet York programme, which seeks to reduce…
City of Amarillo Employees’ Personal Information at Risk After Auditors Lose Flash Drive with Payroll Info
Kaley Green reports: City of Amarillo employees’ personal information has been breached. Tuesday, the city learned the company conducting the required external audit had lost an encrypted flash drive containing sensitive payroll information. The audit is meant to make sure the city has no fraud in its payroll process, but now the personal information of…
City of Bakersfield announces data breach from hacked Click2Gov system
Another Click2Gov breach, this time affecting up to 2400 residents of the City of Bakersfield. The city’s statement, below, doesn’t indicate whether they were ever warned by CentralSquare Technologies, and if so, what they had done in response. DataBreaches.net has filed under freedom of information to try to obtain more records showing what CST had…
Ca: Department Failed To Follow Directive Following Privacy Breach: Molloy
Oh …. (insert your preferred three-letter acronym). VOCM reports from St. John’s, NL: The privacy commissioner has found a government department not only committed a privacy breach, but that it failed to follow a subsequent directive from the commissioner. Donovan Molloy says the Department of Transportation and Works relocated a number of paper records to…
AU: Police officer who leaked woman’s details claims self-incrimination at tribunal
This is one of those N=1 (small) breaches with serious consequences. Kristian Silva reports: A Queensland police officer has refused to answer questions at a tribunal, in fear of incriminating himself, about how a woman’s address was leaked to her allegedly violent ex-husband. The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is taking legal…