Beth Abbit reports: Rape complainants’ confidential details were exposed by a cache of lawyers’ files dumped in a bin and found by a passer-by. Graphic accounts of alleged attacks – and the names of alleged victims and the accused – were among a stash of papers left in a dumpster by a canal in Ancoats….
Ca: Brampton Civic Hospital employee used private patient information to get opioids
680 News reports: A hospital employee at Brampton Civic Hospital allegedly used the private information of a hospital day surgery patient to obtain narcotics, which were then never given to the patient. A CityNews viewer shared her correspondence letter with the hospital in August of this year informing her of the privacy breach. The letter says her…
UK: Oxford and Cambridge Club hit by data breach after backup drive with members’ info stolen
Incredibly, they keep reporting this as “online data theft.” The theft of data that you intend to post online is not online data theft when it was your backup drive that was stolen from your brick and mortar headquarters. PTI reports: The Oxford and Cambridge Club, one of the United Kingdom’s most elite gentlemen’s clubs…
IE: CSO admits major data breach as 3,000 people’s details leaked in email gaffe
Alan O’Keeffe reports: The Central Statistics Office has put its hands up concerning an error by a staff member which led to a serious breach of data protection rules. Information on thousands of people who had worked for the CSO had been inadvertently sent to individuals as a result of the mistake. The mistake, which…
NC DHHS Reports Data Security Incident
November 24 – The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services is notifying the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights and affected individuals of a recent incident in which a spreadsheet containing personal information was sent in error to a vendor in an unencrypted email. The spreadsheet included names, social security…
Canadian charged in Yahoo hacking case to plead guilty in U.S.
Nate Raymond reports: A Canadian accused by the United States of helping Russian intelligence agents break into email accounts as part of a massive 2014 breach of Yahoo accounts is expected to plead guilty next week, according to court records. Karim Baratov, who earlier this year waived his right to fight a U.S. request for…