The staff of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection filed a comment today with the Federal Communications Commission regarding the FCC’s proposed privacy rulemaking for broadband internet access service providers. In the comment, staff outlines the FTC’s extensive history of privacy enforcement, policy initiatives, and consumer and business education, and it commends the FCC for…
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Probable security breach may have compromised thousands of Lewis Palmer students’ data
Sherrie Pief reports: Lewis-Palmer School District 38 officials are mum about the probability that a security breach related to its Infinite Campus platform may have compromised more than 2,000 students’ personal information. Infinite Campus is a software program that stores personal and academic information about students in the district. But wait… the district has known…
Open records request goof exposes personal info of 36,000 Poway USD students and their parents
Yet another breach in response to an open records/freedom of information request, this one affecting 36,000 Poway Unified School District students in California. CBS reports: The privacy breach leaked information about every student in the district and it included: medical information, home addresses, nicknames, birthdates, student grades, test scores and parents’ sensitive occupations. The San Diego…
Breach at vendor’s results in Mayfield Brain & Spine patients receiving emails containing malware
CINCINNATI, OH: On February 23, 2016, many people began receiving a fraudulent email titled “Important Information: invoice 11471” from an unauthorized person who had accessed Mayfield Brain & Spine’s account at an outside vendor. This email was not sent by Mayfield. Mayfield notified recipients of the malicious email as soon as possible that same day,…
5,800 Palm Beach County teachers notified of data security breach
May 2- 6 is Teacher Appreciation Week. Showing appreciation for teachers generally does not include exposing their identity information, but unfortunately, that’s what happened in Palm Beach County School District. The district issued a statement about the unintended disclosure to a vendor: Superintendent Robert Avossa has alerted employees that approximately 5,800 teachers had their Social…
Edwin Shaw employee loses unencrypted flash drive with 975 patients’ info
An anonymous site visitor kindly pointed me to this item that was in the Akron Beacon Journal last week: If you went to Akron General Edwin Shaw Rehabilitation hospital in 2010 or 2011, expect to receive a letter from hospital officials saying that some of your information may have been compromised. Officials said the data…