The following is their notice: NORTH BAY, ON – The North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit (“Health Unit”) announced today that there was a privacy breach in relation to its online COVID-19 dashboard. The dashboard contained information related to the number of COVID-19 tests and confirmed cases in the local community. Inadvertently, personal identifying…
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Data Leak Suggests China Had Hundreds of Thousands of Coronavirus Cases in 230 Cities
Jim Geraghty reports on a very significant data leak: This may be the most spectacularly under-discussed story of the pandemic: A dataset of coronavirus cases and deaths from the military’s National University of Defense Technology, leaked to 100Reporters, offers insight into how Beijing has gathered coronavirus data on its population. The source of the leak, who…
BlockFi’s Data Breach May Allow Criminals to Extort Rich Clients
Andrey Shevchenko reports: Crypto lending provider BlockFi reported on Tuesday that it suffered a data breach that may put some of its clients in physical danger. According to its incident report, some of the company’s client data was breached through a SIM card swap attack performed on one of its employees. Read more on CoinTelegraph.
Canada fines Facebook almost $6.5 million over ‘false’ data privacy claims
Rachel England reports: Facebook is coughing up for another fine. This time the social network is handing over CAD$9 million (US$6.5 million / £5.3 million) to Canada as part of a settlement over the way it handled users’ personal information between August 2012 and June 2018. According to Canada’s independent Competition Bureau, Facebook “made false or misleading claims…
EasyJet hacked: data breach affects 9 million customers
Lawrence Abrams reports: EasyJet, the UK’s largest airline, has disclosed that they were hacked and that the email addresses and travel information for 9 million customers were exposed. For some of these customers, credit card details were also accessed by the attackers. In a data breach notification disclosed today, EasyJet states that they have suffered…
Coronavirus: Serco shares email addresses of hundreds of contact tracers in ‘privacy breach’
Matt Mathers reports: E-mail addresses of 300 contact tracers have been shared accidentally by Serco in what could be a breach of data protection rules. The government is using the outsourcing firm to help with its tracing strategy aimed at monitoring Covid-19 cases. The company has been training people to track cases of coronavirus in the UK and has so far…