Collaborate Disseminate
NYU Langone Health notified patients the week of January 4, 2022, about a potential privacy incident resulting in misdirected, limited patient information. The incident occurred on or about November 12, 2021, when a communication was sent via U.S. mail… Continue reading NYU Langone notified 1,123 patients of privacy issue due to mailing vendor error
PTI reports: Personal data of thousands of people in India has been leaked from a government server which includes their name, mobile number, address and Covid test result, and these information can be now be accessed through an online search. The leak… Continue reading Thousands of Indians’ Covid-19 related data leaked online
Jan Vermeulen reports: An online interface set up for the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (Aarto) system exposed the personal information of every South African who received an infringement notice under the new law. Personal data c… Continue reading South Africa’s new traffic fine system exposed personal data
Susan Gamble reports: A privacy breach that may have exposed Brantford municipal staff job application records, vaccination status and personal addresses was announced by the city on Wednesday evening. A news release sent out by the city said the breac… Continue reading Ca: City hall privacy breach affects staff
Jillian Follert reports: A recent privacy breach at the Durham District School Board (DDSB) resulted in the names of staff who are not vaccinated for COVID-19, or have not disclosed their status, inadvertently being shared with about 400 people. The br… Continue reading Canadian privacy breach: Names of unvaccinated DDSB staff accidentally shared
Sarah Coble reports: A mix-up at a school in Worcestershire, England, caused parents to receive the COVID-19 test results of other people’s children. The data breach, reported today by the Evesham Journal, occurred at co-educational secondary school an… Continue reading COVID Test Data Breach at British School
Some incidents that would seem “smallish” here make headlines elsewhere. But that’s actually helpful, as it reminds us all that avoidable human errors continue to occur and that even big corporations who should have lots of money to d… Continue reading NZ: Vodafone accidentally sent a customer personal details of 18 other accounts
Leila Merrill reports: A volunteer EMS agency in New Jersey says in a news release that patient data in New Jersey was breached, and it has requested formal hearings in the state Senate and Assembly Health Committees. The Lincoln Park First Aid Squad, … Continue reading N.J. volunteer EMS agency says patient data was breached
Bill Toulas reports: British classifieds site Gumtree.com suffered a data leak after a security researcher revealed that he could access sensitive personally identifiable data of advertisers simply by pressing F12 on the keyboard. When pressing the F12… Continue reading Gumtree classifieds site leaked personal info via the F12 key
Emile Hallez reports: A breach of 401(k) participant data earlier this year prompted a class action lawsuit this month against Transamerica Retirement Solutions. In June, the company became aware of a change within one of its websites that let employer… Continue reading Transamerica sued by 401(k) participant over data breach