John McPhee reports: Dalhousie University is contacting people whose private information was inadvertently put into a computer file accessible to faculty, staff and students. The university discovered the problem last March but letters informing people of the problem have been arriving just this week. Read more in The Chronicle Herald.
Category: Non-U.S.
Insider Data Theft Court Cases Climb 25%
Phil Muncaster reports: The number of High Court cases in which sensitive corporate data has been stolen by employees has increased by 25% in a year, according to a London law firm. EMW senior solicitor, Felix Dodd, claimed that an increase in staff turnover could be the cause of the rise, from 40 cases in…
Aadhaar data leak: 210 govt websites publicly revealed citizens’ private details, reveals RTI query
Rohit KVN reports: Even though the government has framed stringent rules to curb illegal access and displaying of Aadhaar details in public domain, a new report has emerged that the central and state-run websites have themselves blatantly leaked the private details of the Indian citizens who enrolled for Aadhaar. In a Right to Information (RTI) query,…
AU: Ambulance staff sue over their medical files being sold to lawyers
Harriet Alexander reports: Ambulance staff whose medical records were sold to solicitors will launch a class action against NSW Ambulance in the Supreme Court on Monday in an action that will test privacy law. NSW Ambulance contractor Waqar Malik was convicted of unlawfully disclosing personal information last year after he sold the worker’s compensation files…
AU: Police investigate hack of gun club database
Nino Bucci reports: Police are investigating the hacking of a gun club database that may have exposed where more than 1500 semi-automatic handguns are stored. The private details of 540 members from the Port Melbourne club, including the types of weapons they owned, is believed to have been compromised this month, potentially exposing them to…
SG: School’s data breach spooks students
Jan Lee reports: Ex-students from Xinmin Secondary School received a shock yesterday when they found out that their alma mater had suffered a data breach. Several told The New Paper they received calls from their former school yesterday, informing them that their names and identity card numbers had been leaked on pastebin.com, self-described as “where…