Tim Williams reports: Education Minister Susan Close has admitted she does not know how many Year 12 students were affected by the SACE computer bungle that delivered the wrong university entrance scores. Some students were presented with someone else’s uni entrance details when they logged onto the SACE website on Tuesday morning, in an embarrassing privacy…
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Ca: Breach forces shut down of LaSalle’s new online registration system
Julie Kotsis reports that the Town of LaSalle‘s new online recreation department registration system had a bug that exposed people’s personal information for almost one month until someone reported it to LaSalle, who then shut down the system. No financial information is stored in this system but personal data such as account holder names, names of children, addresses, phone…
Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign sues the DNC
It wouldn’t be a presidential campaign without at least one data leak, right? So a contractor screws up, allowing Sanders’ staffers to access Clintons’ data on potential voters. Clinton campaign alleges the data were “stolen.” The DNC cuts off the Sanders’ campaign access to their own potential voter data. And in tonight’s chapter, the Sanders…
Bernie Sanders’ campaign disciplined for data breach
Bernie Sanders’ campaign has been disciplined by the Democratic National Committee after at least one staffer took advantage of a software glitch that allowed for review of Hillary Clinton’s private campaign data. The New York Times called the suspension of access to the voter database a “major blow” to the Senator’s campaign. Read more on Dayton Daily News….
AU: Over 30,000 Optus customers’ debt data exposed on job freelancer site
Josh Taylor reports: The personal data of 31,150 mostly former Optus customers was posted on short-term job website Freelancer.com in major breach of their privacy, Crikey can reveal. Earlier this week, Crikey reported that an employee of the telecommunications company’s debt collector ARC Mercantile had posted a spreadsheet of data of customers who owed a…
Personal and sensitive data of 59,000 charter school students in California leaked: researcher
California Virtual Academies (CAVA) is a network of 11 publicly funded charter k-12 schools in California. Researcher Chris Vickery recently contacted DataBreaches.net after he found a database with 58,694 of their students’ records leaking. In addition to a lot of personal information on the students that was all in plain text, the leaking data included some information on student…