Alexander J. Martin reports: Gwent Police is being investigated after failing to inform hundreds of people that hackers may have accessed their confidential reports to the force. Sky News has learned that up to 450 people who filed reports through an online tool over a two-year period could have been put at risk by hackers…
Category: Non-U.S.
Used Tesco for your travel cash in the past? Your personal details may have been hit by a data leak at its provider Travelex
Lee Boyce reports: Travellers who have bought currency at Tesco in the past may have had their details leaked, This is Money can exclusively reveal. The service is run by currency giant Travelex for orders made over the telephone and online. It confirmed 17,000 Tesco Travel Money customers have had personal information stolen, including full…
Owner says North Battleford store receiving private medical records via fax
If you harbored any hope that we might be done with breaches due to misdirected faxes, I hate to disillusion you, but Meaghan Craig and Thomas Piller report yet another example in Canada: The Saskatchewan Health Authority is looking into instances where confidential medical records were allegedly faxed to a computer store in North Battleford….
Statistics Canada loses, mishandles hundreds of sensitive census, employment files
Kathleen Harris reports: The federal agency in charge of collecting, analyzing and securely storing personal data about Canadians lost hundreds of sensitive files during the 2016 census process. Incident reports obtained by CBC News through Access to Information detail 20 cases of information and privacy breaches by Statistics Canada, including long and short census surveys, home…
Data Breach Left Millions of Israeli Kids’ Pictures Vulnerable to Hacking
Amitai Ziv reports: A serious security breach in an app called Remini left millions of pictures of Israeli children vulnerable to being leaked to the internet. Remini is an app that enables preschool teachers to stay in touch with parents. It allows them to share everything from pictures and videos through schedules of classroom activities…
UK: Up to 100 students’ info sent to the wrong parents
Keane Duncan reports: A mailroom muddle has resulted in a major data protection breach at a Teesside school. The personal details of up to 100 students at Hillsview Academy, Teesville , have ended up in the wrong hands. It involved ‘data checking forms’ – containing everything from contact details to medical history – being delivered…