Rob Antle reports: The College of the North Atlantic campus in Qatar (CNA-Q) discovered two serious privacy breaches in the span of two weeks in late 2011, including one that saw the salary information of hundreds of employees inadvertently revealed. That’s according to government records obtained through access to information by CBC Investigates. Read more…
Category: Non-U.S.
Ca: Probe says there was no security breach – this time
Peter Jackson reports that William Lorimer’s claims of a breach involving botnets and government servers were not confirmed by EWA-Canada, who conducted an investigation of his claims: EWA-Canada found that both alerts were likely false alarms. But in its conclusions, EWA condemned how the office handled the situation, saying there were no formal procedures in place to…
Ca: Privacy commissioner calls for prosecution over Rob Ford privacy breach
Olivia Carville reports: Ontario’s privacy commissioner is calling for the two health professionals who allegedly snooped into former mayor Rob Ford’s medical records to face prosecution. If the duo is convicted, this would mark the first successful prosecution under the province’s health privacy law, which came into force more than a decade ago. Read more…
SG: Details of more than 1,900 pupils from Henry Park Primary School leaked
Irene Tham reports an e-mail gaffe exposed the data of Singapore students: The personal data of more than 1,900 pupils from Henry Park Primary School was leaked two weeks ago, in the second such case reported here since patrons of karaoke chain K Box had their details exposed last September. A Microsoft Excel spreadsheet containing…
Ca: Wiseman says relax on security breach
There’s a follow-up or update to a breach previously noted on this site. In the House of Assembly, Liberal MHA Paul Lane raised the issue of a report in The Weekend Telegram. A former government security analyst told The Telegram about a security breach discovered in June 2013, connected to “botnet” servers in Eastern Europe…
Ca: Some 5,600 privacy breaches in federal government in 2014: documents
Bea Vongdouuangchanh reports: There were 5,600 privacy breaches in the federal government in 2014, affecting almost 44,000 individuals, according to data ministers tabled in the House of Commons on March 23. According to the 2013 (sic) annual report from the privacy commissioner, there were 426 complaints received. This includes all complaints from departments and the…