The Express and Star reports that St Peter’s Collegiate Church of England School in Wolverhampton sent out a document including the names, addresses and dates of birth of 88 other pupils to a mother who had requested details about her child. School bosses have described the incident as ‘an administrative error’ and have since launched…
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UK: ICO orders Hartlepool based NHS Trust to review data protection
From the Information Commissioner’s Office, this enforcement notice: North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust has been ordered by the ICO to review its data protection policy after a file containing sensitive patient information was found at a bus stop. It was one of a number of incidents over the last year which resulted in data being…
Ca: Privacy Breach as Employees Receive Other People’s T4 Forms
Every year, I expect to see a certain number of breach reports involving tax/wage statements. Here’s another one: VOCM News has learned that there has been a major privacy breach in Central Newfoundland. Employees with Municipal Affairs in Gander got their T4 slips in the mail yesterday. VOCM News has been told that four people…
Identities left exposed in Indiana salvage yards
Bennett Haeberle reports: The list of items was long: medical records, bank statements, insurance cards, employee identification cards, car registrations, a signature, a child’s name, dates of birth, and an application for welfare assistance. They’re things many people would keep under lock and key, but I-Team 8 found them scattered throughout auto salvage yards in…
Ca: Star gets action from parking cops after privacy breach
Eric Lai writes: Toronto Parking Tag Operations recently “returned” a payment cheque and ticket to my mother, as it’s a Barrie-issued ticket. The thing is: neither the ticket nor cheque were hers. Mom recently paid a Toronto ticket by mail, but that’s where her involvement ends. Apparently, Toronto staff thought nothing of “returning” a personalized…
Lawsuit filed over Shorter University data theft
And so it begins… A potential class-action lawsuit against Shorter University has been filed by a former student who became a victim of identity theft/tax refund fraud following the theft of records last year. Reports of identity theft related to tax refund fraud started emerging in February, and as of last week, there were over 30 reports….