It’s a council two-fer today it seems when it comes to breaches of students’ information. First we had the Cornwall Council item. Now we learn about how Central Bedfordshire Council leaked the details of ‘dozens and dozens’ of special educational need (SEND) pupils. The council leaked the details when responding to a Freedom of Information (FOI)…
Category: Government Sector
Ca: Elgin data breach ‘devastating’ for victims; county not transparent about incident – Cavoukian
Norman de Bono reports: Personal information for 330 people, some of it highly sensitive, was compromised by a “cyber-security incident” that knocked out Elgin County’s website and email system for nearly a month, the county said. Personal and employment information for county employees and some long-term care residents and former residents was dumped into the…
UK: Cornwall Council Data Breach
The Cornwall council accidentally published the personal details of five schoolchildren in publicly accessible meeting documents. Cornwall Council has apologized for the data breach, including their names, addresses, and dates of birth. It made the error when it published online documents for a meeting of its School Transport Appeals Committee. Source: InformationSecurityBuzz.
Conti abandons all pretense at professionalism, issues increasingly strident threats as Costa Rica struggles
Conti ransomware actors have created a national emergency in Costa Rica, where the government declared a state of emergency. Multiple government agencies have reportedly been impacted by an attack in April and the government’s refusal to pay the ransom demands. Kevin Collier of NBC reported: The official declaration, published on a government website Wednesday, said that the attack…
Nl: Citizens’ data stolen from Eindhoven police cadet’s car
NL Times reports: Confidential personal information was recently stolen from a police cadet’s car in Eindhoven. The cop-in-training forgot to take her laptop bag and documents from her car when she parked in Eindhoven overnight. The next morning she found the window broken and her things gone, Omroep Brabant reports. The incident happened on the…
No need to hack when it’s leaking, Saturday edition: Cincinnati inadvertently posted employees’ personal data online
Dan Horn reports: Personal information for more than 2,000 current and former Cincinnati city employees appeared online for almost two weeks in April because of a mistake, city officials said Friday. The employee data includes names, addresses, insurance information and, in some cases, Social Security numbers. Read more at Cincinnati.com