Laura Diamond reports: University of Georgia officials are investigating how personal data on nearly 19,000 employees was publicly available on a university web site since at least 2008. […] The database was created for internal purposes and included the Social Security number, date of birth, employee name and other sensitive information for everyone who was…
600+ accounts leaked from unijobs.com.au by @BlackHatGhosts
An Australian uni website that lists jobs has been hacked and had a dump of user logins leaked onto pastebin. this comes @blackhatghosts and contains usernames and passwords. UniJobs is Australia’s university job website. UniJobs enables all Australian universities to post their jobs on our centralised university job board. Job seekers visit UniJobs to search, find, compare and apply for university…
IU addresses information breach at School of Optometry
The Indiana University School of Optometry has notified 757 patients that a computer server on which certain health information was stored was visible on the Internet for almost a month, between August and September 2011. The server, containing information relating to patients seen by a former faculty member of the school, Kevin E. Houston, O.D.,…
Some days, I pull my hair out, Thursday edition
Everywhere I look, there are data breaches that I would want to include in DataLossDB.org’s database. But as I backfill the database to include incidents reported on my blogs that were never in the database, my research stumbles over tons of other breaches that should also be included. Rather than getting closer and closer to…
UK: Details of 'care-in-the-home' patients found in car park
Chris Caulfield reports: Personal details of 50 home care patients, including keycode access to many of their doors, were left lying in a school car park before being found and handed in to the Herald & News. Among the patients was a Member of the British Empire while all those on the list lived in…
Psychologist held in contempt for refusing to speak
Via Dr. Ken Pope’s mail list, I saw this item in today’s Copenhagen Post: A retired military psychologist has been charged with contempt of court for refusing to break a client confidentiality agreement, in a case that involves the alleged torture Afghan war prisoners. Following a brief appearance in Copenhagen’s Eastern High Court yesterday, Lindholm…