Nora Muchanic of WPVI reports that a distraught New Jersey mother is fighting for legislation that would spare others the anguish she experienced when a first responder uploaded crash photos of her daughter’s accident online before she even knew that her daughter had been in a fatal crash. Cathy Bates, 40, was killed in a…
PA: Names and Social Security numbers of Public School Employees’ Retirement System members exposed on Internet
Regina Medina reports: A recent security breach caused the names and Social Security numbers of about 2,000 members of the pension fund for Pennsylvania public school employees to be accessible to the public, state officials said Tuesday. The Public School Employees’ Retirement System sent a notification letter about the situation to about 2,000 of its…
Ca: ‘Insider’ government data breaches soaring
Emily Chung reports: The proportion of “insider” internet security breaches caused by employees are rising quickly within Canadian government departments and agencies, a new study shows. Insider breaches in the government sector grew by 28 per cent between 2010 and 2011 and are up 68 per cent since 2008, the fourth annual Telus-Rotman joint study…
Monster employee salary info and Social Security numbers may have been exposed on the web for over 8 years
Oh my. It seems that on October 24, Monster Worldwide was contacted by a former employee, who while Googling her name, discovered a spreadsheet with her employment details including her name, address, job title, date of birth, salary, and Social Security number. The spreadsheet had been created in 2003 and was available on the web…
Berkeley HeartLab notifies patients of insider breach involving theft of trade secrets
Berkeley HeartLab (a Celera business) notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that in late September of this year, it learned that a former employee had accessed patient data in “2008 and/or 2009.” The employee subsequently went to work for an unnamed competitor, and BHL believes that the employee took the data for competitive purposes…
Healthcare most breached industry in 2011? Not by my analyses.
The following was originally posted to PHIprivacy.net. The carousel image for this post reflects 2011 statistics from DataLossDB and is used with permission. Note that healthcare sector breaches account for a smaller percentage of total breaches reported in 2011 compared to 2010 while business sector breaches account for a larger percentage of total breaches compared to…