A London council has been fined £70,000 after it accidentally published a cache of personal data including medical details, cheques, and even one person’s prison record. Islington’s parking system website published unencrypted personal information of almost 90,000 people, meaning it could be accessed by simply manipulating a URL Read more on Evening Standard.
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CA: Breach of RNC officers’ information in Sunshine List accidental, says privacy commissioner
CBC News reports: The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) has concluded that a privacy breach that led to the salary and employee ID information of some Royal Newfoundland Constabulary officers being published online earlier this year was accidental. The information was published as part of the 2016 Sunshine list, which listed people who…
Veterans group sues Pentagon after personal military records exposed
Vera Bergengruen reports: A veterans organization is suing the Pentagon for exposing private details about troops’ military service on “a truly massive scale” due to lax security on one of its websites. […] The Servicemembers Civil Relief Act website, which according to the Pentagon receives more than 2.3 billion searches a year, is mean to…
State juror pool data breach exposed Social Security numbers
Kieran Nicholson reported: A lapse in security at the Colorado Judicial Department led to information about jurors in Colorado, including Social Security numbers, being exposed on the internet for about a year. The state court administrator’s office was contacted July 27 by a person in Alaska who alerted state officials about the potential for massive…
Aadhaar e-kyc app had 88,000 downloads: Cyber police
Rajiv Kalkod reports: The cyber crime police investigating the alleged theft of Aadhaar data by IIT grad Abhinav Srivastava, 31, found that the Aadhaar e-kyc app he developed had been downloaded by over 88,000 people from Google PlayStore. During the initial investigation, police said the app had been downloaded 40,000 times between January and July this…
Former Air Force member sentenced for stealing fellow members’ information
Luke Wilusz reports: A former U.S. Air Force member was sentenced to four years in prison this week for stealing and distributing personal information from other service members. A federal jury found 28-year-old Ronnie Allen II guilty earlier this year of two counts each of of identity theft, aggravated identity theft and access device fraud,…