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More details revealed on 2018 Moose jaw police privacy breach

Posted on January 11, 2020 by Dissent

CKOM reports: In the fall of 2018, the Moose Jaw Police Service fired two workers “inappropriately accessing police information records”, and now more details have been released on what happened in a report from the Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner. In the report from the commissioner released on Tuesday, it described the privacy breaches as “snooping”. Read…

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Amazon fires employees for leaking customer email addresses and phone numbers

Posted on January 10, 2020 by Dissent

Zack Whittaker reports: Amazon  has fired a number of employees after they shared customer email address and phone numbers with a third-party “in violation of our policies.” The email to customers sent Friday afternoon, seen by TechCrunch,  said an employee was “terminated” for sharing the data, and that the company is supporting law enforcement in their prosecution. Read…

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Ring Fired Employees for Watching Customer Videos

Posted on January 9, 2020 by Dissent

Joseph Cox reports: Amazon-owned home security camera company Ring has fired employees for improperly accessing Ring users’ video data, according to a letter the company wrote to Senators and obtained by Motherboard. The news highlights a risk across many different tech companies: employees may abuse access granted as part of their jobs to look at customer data or information….

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Air China suspends flight attendant over personal data breach involving 20 celebrities

Posted on January 4, 2020 by Dissent

Alice Yan reports: An Air China flight attendant accused of publishing personal information on social media about the celebrities he served in the air has been suspended, the company said on Friday. The airline launched an investigation after aviation industry blogger Chao Cewei blew the whistle on a post made on Weibo – China’s Twitter-like…

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IL: Former Lurie Children’s employee wrongfully accessed patient data, hospital says

Posted on December 27, 2019 by Dissent

WLS reports: Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago is notifying some of its patients about a former employee’s access of patients’ medical records. On Nov. 15, the hospital learned that between Sept. 10, 2018 and Sept. 22, 2019, an employee accessed certain patients’ medical records without a business reason to do so,…

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UK: Ex-employee of ICT contractor jailed for Jet2 cyber attacks

Posted on December 20, 2019 by Dissent

A disgruntled ex-employee has been jailed after he admitted carrying out cyber attacks against Jet2 which took down their computer systems for more than 12 hours. NCA investigators proved that 27-year-old Scott Burns from Morley, Leeds, illegally accessed a domain operated by Dart Group and their subsidiary, Jet2, on two separate occasions in January 2018….

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