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…
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UK: Council letters with personal details found dumped in bin bag on Washington street
Kali Lindsay reports: Council tax demand letters with confidential information were found dumped in a black bin bag on a street. Found near the Galleries Shopping Centre, Washington , the bag was filled with letters from Jacobs Enforcement Agents. The letters contained details of residents owing Council Tax to 18 local authorities, including Newcastle City…
Ca: JJ Meds was attacked today
JJ Meds is a medical marijuana delivery service in Canada. They seem to have received an extortion demand, as they explained on the CanadianMOM forum (“MOM” refers to Mail Order Marijuana, not that lovely woman who made you peanut butter and jelly sandwiches): Hi everyone, we wanted to share with the community what has happened.Drama: Today…
In: 53,000 cybersecurity incidents observed during 2017
For comparison purposes: “As per the information reported to and tracked by Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), a total number of 49,455, 50,362 and 53,081 cyber security incidents were observed during the year 2015, 2016 and 2017, respectively,” IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said in a written reply to Rajya Sabha today. Read more…
Apple Employee Threatens to Leak User’s iCloud Data
Chen Na reports: “Your personal data belongs to you, not others,” reads a bold declaration on Apple’s webpage for user privacy. But for one Chinese customer, this proved not to be the case after an Apple tech support employee threatened to leak his photos, contacts, emails, and memos online. An article describing how the Apple…
Waltham Forest Council has breached data protection laws
Alice Richardson reports: A Waltham Forest Council employee uploaded a video containing “sensitive information” to Youtube, a report filled with damning personal data breaches has revealed. The report by private consultants Agilisys noted the council is currently not currently compliant with data protection regulations. It also shows how personal information was wrongly disclosed 18 times…