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AU: Over 30,000 Optus customers’ debt data exposed on job freelancer site

Posted on December 17, 2015 by Dissent

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…

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Personal and sensitive data of 59,000 charter school students in California leaked: researcher

Posted on December 12, 2015 by Dissent

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…

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NH: Personal info of Dover volunteers mistakenly dumped

Posted on December 4, 2015 by Dissent

Kimberley Haas reports: Personal information for close to 160 volunteers in Dover’s school district — including their fingerprint cards and social security numbers — was “mistakenly destroyed” this fall, according to city officials. Between early September and the beginning of last month, a janitor working for S.J. Services in Danvers, Mass., bagged up numerous postmarked…

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IL: Mailing error by contractor discloses ‘limited’ personal info of 3,000 Centegra patients

Posted on December 1, 2015 by Dissent

Stephen DiBenedetto reports: Medical bills detailing “limited” personal information of 3,000 Centegra Health System patients recently were sent to the wrong addresses because of a mailroom error at a third-party contractor, a Centegra spokeswoman said. The mailing error happened Nov. 2 at MedAssets, a Georgia-based vendor Centegra contracts, during routine maintenance. A setting on automatic…

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Follow-Up: Company involved in NSUH-LIJ breach folded

Posted on November 22, 2015 by Dissent

In June, this site covered a breach affecting approximately 18,000 patients of North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System. Unencrypted patient data, including SSN and clinical information, had been on five laptops stolen from Global Care Delivery, a Texas-based firm that contracted with North Shore-LIJ to process and collect payments owed by insurers to the hospital system. At the…

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Oh, so THAT’s what happened, Sunday edition

Posted on November 22, 2015 by Dissent

Sometimes I see breaches on HHS’s public breach tool but can find no web site for the covered entity or any substitute notice online. Such was the case with an entry for “Daniel A. Sheldon, M.D., P.A.,” an orthopaedic surgeon in Florida. The breach tool entry indicated that on September 16, 2015, the doctor had…

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