Tom Biggs reports: Regulators have opened an investigation into Optus for potential breaches of the Privacy Act, following an incident in which the telco accidentally sent off thousands of customers’ contact details to be published in the White Pages directory against their wishes. In October 2019 Optus contacted almost 50,000 customers to inform them of the privacy…
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UK: Oxford City Council apologizes after mailing error involving rent statements
Eirian Jane Prosser reports: OXFORD City Council have apologised to residents after a ‘computer error’ caused a potential data breach over rent statements. The apology comes after locals raised the alarm of the potential breach after they recieved the wrong rent statement in the post. Read more on Oxford Mail.
UK: Top secret military documents found ‘in soggy heap’ at bus stop
Emma Brazell reports: Top secret Ministry of Defence documents have been found in a ‘soggy heap’ at a bus stop in Kent. Fifty pages of documents reveal details about HMS Defender and the British military. They allegedly show officials had predicted Russia may respond ‘aggressively’ to the ship’s passage through Ukrainian waters off the Crimea coast, but…
Ca: Hay River health authority warns of potential privacy breach after break-in at local hospital
CBC News reports: There’s been another apparent break-in at a Hay River, N.W.T., health facility, according to the Hay River Health and Social Services Authority, and this time, there may have been a privacy breach. During the early morning hours on Monday, there was a break and enter at H.H. Williams Memorial Hospital, a Thursday…
Castle Hills police recover stolen IDs, urge residents to check for identity theft
It’s not quite on the order of recovering millions in bitcoin, but in Texas last week, a traffic stop in Castle Hills resulted in the recovery of a number of stolen identification paperwork including “A licenses, passports, checkbooks and also some birth certificates and car titles. Now the police are warning the public to check to…
GA: Hundreds of peoples’ medical records from Hope Medical found along a road
Justin Gray reports: Medical records for hundreds of patients were found dumped along the side of a road in South Fulton County. Channel 2 Action News has learned that those records contained everything from Social Security numbers to private medical information. Channel 2 investigative reporter Justin Gray tracked down where the records came from. Hope Medical told…