Jeremy Kirk reports: A large health insurer in Western Australia inadvertently shared the home addresses of some psychologists to a web-based appointment booking service, the West Australian reported Wednesday. The health insurer, HBF, passed names and addresses for psychologists to Whitecoat, a company that develops an online booking and patient review mobile application and website. The details…
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IE: Health body apologizes for email gaffe exposing email addresses of 200 job applicants
A statutory health body has apologised for a data breach in which the email addresses of unsuccessful applicants to a job were mistakenly shared. In an email informing individuals that their application had been unsuccessful, the email addresses of about 200 other applicants were shared. The email, seen by TheJournal.ie, was sent by the Pre-Hospital Emergency…
Popular avatar app Boomoji exposed millions of users’ contact lists and location data
Zack Whittaker reports: Popular animated avatar creator app Boomoji, with more than five million users across the world, exposed the personal data of its entire user base after it failed to put passwords on two of its internet-facing databases. The China-based app developer left the ElasticSearch databases online without passwords — a U.S.-based database for its international…
AU: Thousands affected in ActewAGL and Icon Water mail-out privacy breach
Jasper Lindell reports: ActewAGL has confirmed 400 electricity, gas and water customers have received bundles of bills addressed to other utility customers in a massive privacy breach affecting 6000 customers in the ACT and NSW. ActewAGL notified the Privacy Commissioner of the breach after it became aware of the mistake on Wednesday and had set up…
Ca: Hundreds of N.W.T. health records found at Fort Simpson dump
Hilary Bird reports: An N.W.T man says he found hundreds of confidential medical records at the Fort Simpson dump. The documents contain detailed information about patients’ mental health and history of drug use, including applications to addictions treatment facilities, progress reports from those facilities, and detailed notes from one-on-one counselling sessions. The documents, many of…
Personal information of 541k individuals has been stolen from an emergency contact database after the website of the French Ministry of Europe breached
Sergiu Gatlan reports: According to the Ministry’s public statement, the hackers managed to get their hands on the names, phone numbers, and email addresses of all people who had an account on the French Ariane emergency contact database. The platform is used by the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs to allow citizens traveling abroad to…