Beth Abbit reports: Rape complainants’ confidential details were exposed by a cache of lawyers’ files dumped in a bin and found by a passer-by. Graphic accounts of alleged attacks – and the names of alleged victims and the accused – were among a stash of papers left in a dumpster by a canal in Ancoats….
Category: Non-U.S.
Ca: Brampton Civic Hospital employee used private patient information to get opioids
680 News reports: A hospital employee at Brampton Civic Hospital allegedly used the private information of a hospital day surgery patient to obtain narcotics, which were then never given to the patient. A CityNews viewer shared her correspondence letter with the hospital in August of this year informing her of the privacy breach. The letter says her…
UK: Oxford and Cambridge Club hit by data breach after backup drive with members’ info stolen
Incredibly, they keep reporting this as “online data theft.” The theft of data that you intend to post online is not online data theft when it was your backup drive that was stolen from your brick and mortar headquarters. PTI reports: The Oxford and Cambridge Club, one of the United Kingdom’s most elite gentlemen’s clubs…
IE: CSO admits major data breach as 3,000 people’s details leaked in email gaffe
Alan O’Keeffe reports: The Central Statistics Office has put its hands up concerning an error by a staff member which led to a serious breach of data protection rules. Information on thousands of people who had worked for the CSO had been inadvertently sent to individuals as a result of the mistake. The mistake, which…
Privacy breach at Burns Lake hospital
A privacy breach has recently occurred at the Lakes District Hospital and Health Centre in Burns Lake. Approximately 150 people were affected. “We are notifying individuals whose health information was inappropriately accessed by an employee,” explained Eryn Collins, a spokesperson for Northern Health. Read more on Terrace Standard.
AU: Data breach hits Department of Social Services credit card system
For more than one year, employee data of approximately 8,500 Department of Social Services employees was exposed online due to an error by contractor Business Information Services. Paul Karp reports that the compromised data included: credit card information, employees’ names, user names, work phone numbers, work emails, system passwords, Australian government services number, public service classification…