Laurie Monsebraaten reports: Police are investigating an unprecedented security breach at a Brockville-area children’s aid society after an electronic file containing the names of 285 families involved with Family and Children’s Services of Lanark, Leeds and Grenville was made available on Facebook. The breach was discovered Monday at 1:42 p.m. after both a client and a…
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Fappening Forum Users Hit by Data Breach, Malvertising, and Then by Ransomware
Some might say that there’s almost some poetic justice in this, but Catalin Cimpanu reports: Users of The Fappening Forum, a place where aficionados once converged to share and collect images from the infamous celebrity nude photos leak, have had their personal details leak this week during a data breach. There is no information available…
Another Greenshades client reports tax filing problems
Add Lower Platte North Natural Resource District to the list of Greenshades clients whose employees are have been alerted to attempted identity theft involving tax refund fraud. According to Wahoo Newspaper, 15 of 18 NRD employees had been told by the IRS that an attempt to file their taxes had been made from a suspicious source. Although…
AU: Return to sender: unions royal commission apologises over privacy blunder
Paul Karp reports: The royal commission into trade union governance and corruption has apologised to the construction union after giving its confidential documents to another party. On Wednesday the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union alerted the royal commission that in a further breach it had sent the union confidential information of another company’s employees, the…
BS: Activists To Send ‘Leak’ Complaint To Data Watchdog
Neil Hartnell reports: The Save the Bays activist group yesterday informed the data protection watchdog it will submit a formal complaint over the leaking of its private e-mails, once its own investigation and legal analysis is completed. Ferron Bethell, the attorney acting for the Save the Bays plaintiffs, branded the leak as “one of the…
GA: Non-profit director leaves town and abandons donations and clients’ personal information
WRDW reports: The director of the non-profit organization, Community in Action, left town and abandoned donations along with her clients’ personal information. Her landlord discovered copies clients’ social security cards, drivers’ licenses and birth certificates left in the home. Trish Wilcher took back possession of her rental home just a few weeks ago. She rented…