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NZ: Students get porn message after high school’s email hacked

Posted on October 19, 2015 by Dissent

Stuff reports: Student emails have been suspended at Mt Albert Grammar after a security breach led to porn being sent to every student. An official message was sent to parents on Monday night apologising for any offence caused. Principal Dale Burden said they believed the culprit was most likely to be a student at the…

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2 Manitoba nurses fined $1K each for breaching patient privacy

Posted on October 17, 2015 by Dissent

CBC News reports that two nurses have been fined for privacy violations that did not involve snooping: Two Manitoba nurses have been slapped with $1,000 fines each in two separate incidents in which the confidential medical information of a patient was shared — in violation of privacy rules. Read more on CBC News.

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UK: Aviva hit by another insider data theft

Posted on October 17, 2015 by Dissent

The Drum reports: Aviva has admitted that a number of its employees stole the details of customers leading to some receiving up to ten calls per day in a bid to persuade them to make personal injury claims. It is the second time the insurance company has been hit by a data theft: a similar…

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Veterans Administration September report includes four breaches, each affecting multiple veterans

Posted on October 16, 2015 by Dissent

Okay, so maybe I jinxed things when I reported how well the Veterans Administration had done in August in reducing the number of breaches involving personal information. By September, it was back to same old, same old. Here’s a brief rundown on  the breaches involving personal information of multiple individuals reported by the VA to Congress for the month of…

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Wiener Linien insider data breach and leak affects 20,000 customers

Posted on October 16, 2015 by Dissent

The Local (Austria) reports: Personal data belonging to around 20,000 customers of the Vienna public transport company Wiener Linien has been stolen and published online. The Wiener Linien said the data, which included personal information such as names, addresses and email addresses but not payment data, was stolen by a former employee of its online…

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Alberta Health System investigating alleged privacy breach by 48 Calgary employees

Posted on October 15, 2015 by Dissent

Erica Stark reports: At least one health care worker has been fired and dozens more are facing disciplinary action after allegedly improperly accessing a patient’s information, a claim that the nurse’s union is disputing. Forty-eight employees of Alberta Health Services are under investigation by the health authority and the privacy commissioner after a routine audit revealed…

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