Dustin Volz reports: The U.S. House of Representatives’ information technology team this week reinstated access on its internet network to software applications hosted on a Google cloud service after the company addressed potential security fears, according to an email seen by Reuters. Yahoo Mail remains inaccessible, however, and has been blacklisted since the House Information…
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UK: Met officers ‘hacked database to leak name of protected witness’
Another “small breach with huge potential impact.” Press Association reports: Police detention officers leaked the identity of an anonymous witness in a murder trial after hacking into the intelligence database, a court has heard. Rupert Ross, 34, and Leon De St Aubin, 38, were both sentenced to life imprisonment for the “vicious execution” of Darcy…
UK: Cambridgeshire County Council’s data breach shockers – Big Brother Watch
Big Brother Watch cites a Cambridge News article from May 13, but I can’t seem to load the original article, so am using BBW’s report: Elderly care papers held by an agency were found dumped in a bin as part of a shocking series of data breaches by Cambridgeshire County Council, the News can reveal….
More than 2,000 veterans had their PHI breached in April
Another site that reports on health data breaches tends to report on VA breaches in terms of percentage change from the previous month. DataBreaches.net does not do that because, frankly, there’s no consistent pattern or trend, and month-to-month comparisons don’t strike this blogger as particularly useful. Consider the stats from the last three months’ reports: February Summary:…
CA: Stolen state laptop puts inmate patient information at risk (UPDATED)
UPDATE: It turns out “notifying everyone” involved notifying 400,000 people, as reported to HHS. ABC10 reports: California Correctional Health Care Services announced Friday that a laptop was stolen that may contain the personal information of patients. The theft happened from the employee’s personal vehicle on February 25, according to Liz Gransee, public information officer with…
Privacy commissioner closes door on Corner Brook privacy breach
Mistakes happen, and not every incident should result in a regulator investigation or smackdown. Cory Hurly provides a useful example of that: Given there was no complaint from anybody potentially impacted by an inadvertent release of documents on the City of Corner Brook’s website, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner has all but closed the file. Sean Murray,…