Collaborate Disseminate
Ax Sharma reports: Adafruit has disclosed a data leak that occurred due to a publicly-viewable GitHub repository. The company suspects this could have allowed “unauthorized access” to information about certain users on or before 2019. Based… Continue reading Adafruit discloses data leak from ex-employee’s GitHub repo
Scott Schwebke reports: A website that aggregates court cases nationwide has published 260,000 confidential attorney discipline records, the State Bar of California said Saturday, Feb. 26. The data breach by shadowy judyrecords.com was first discovered… Continue reading 260,000 confidential attorney discipline records published after data breach, State Bar of California says
KTRK reports: The Houston Health Department is warning its clients after a glitch in the system exposed COVID-19 test results and their personal information. The health department said it was made aware of the potential breach on the night of Jan. 6 a… Continue reading TX: Houston Health Department working to fix website ‘glitch’ that exposed patients’ COVID test results
Brian Krebs reports on a follow-up to the case of Missouri’s Governor Parsons tried to sue a journalist and others who had responsibly disclosed and reported on a data leak by the state. The data leak first came to public attention in October, 20… Continue reading Report: Missouri Governor’s Office Responsible for Teacher Data Leak
Independent.ie reports: A report compiled by the HSE in response to a complaint about the treatment given to a 19-month-old patient found its way into the wrong hands, Wexford Circuit Court was told. The result was a case taken on behalf of the now thr… Continue reading Ie: Mother seeking compensation from HSE over data breach involving report into treatment of toddler at hospital
Readers of PoPville report: “Just applied for the new DC digital SMART Health Card and was sent someone else’s vaccine record?! Hopefully you’re not sending my vaccine card to other random people??” and “Received notification from DCHealth about digita… Continue reading “DC Health Launches New Portal for Residents to Access COVID-19 Vaccination Records” and it’s not going well – two reports of being sent someone else’s vaccine record
Yasmine Ghania reports: About 200 Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) employees were accidentally identified by name in an email as participants of the organization’s now-scrapped mandatory testing program. The SHA ended its vaccine and testing m… Continue reading Sask. Health Authority accidentally outs employees that were part of mandatory COVID testing program
Jonathan Kearsley and Clair Weaver report: The addresses of more than 500,000 organisations including defence sites, a missile maintenance unit and domestic violence shelters were inadvertently made public in the first major breach of the NSW governmen… Continue reading Au: Sensitive business addresses among 500,000 published in COVID data breach
Lee Berthiaume reports: The company administering the federal government’s $900-million settlement deal with Armed Forces members and veterans who experienced sexual misconduct while in uniform has inadvertently released private information about dozen… Continue reading Ca: Military sexual misconduct settlement hit by privacy breach
In April 2019, Puerto-Rico headquartered Inmediata issued a press release concerning a data leak it had discovered in January of that year. The business associate’s press release explained, in relevant part: In January 2019, Inmediata became awa… Continue reading Inmediata Data Breach $1.1M Class Action Settlement