Collaborate Disseminate
November 27 EDMONTON – The 2023-2024 Annual Report of the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) of Alberta was tabled today by the Speaker of the Alberta Legislative Assembly and has now been published online by the OIPC. “The 2023-… Continue reading Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta Publishes 2023-24 Annual Report
James Cox reports: A Dublin cybersecurity researcher, Aaron Costello, has found that 1.1 million NHS employee records were leaked online because of improper configuration settings in Microsoft Power Pages, a software platform used by over 250 million p… Continue reading Irish researcher finds 1.1 million NHS employee records were leaked
Tina Kelley reports: A Cherry Hill resident has asked the U.S. Department of Education to investigate the Cherry Hill School District for releasing the names of dozens of students whose families opted them out of sex education classes. The breach came … Continue reading N.J. school accidentally released names of kids who opted out of sex education
If you say you always do right, then you should do right, right? Ouch. Over on infosec.exchange, @Jayeltee recently wrote: Professional Probation Services ( www.ppsfamily.com ) exposes almost 500,000 US probationers private data publicly, SSNs included… Continue reading Professional Probation Services leak exposed almost half a million probationers’ personal info
The Norwegian data protection authority (Datatilsynet) has imposed an administrative fine of NOK 250,000 [USD $22,669.69] on Grue municipality for breach of GDPR requirements. They explain: Personal data that should have been confidential was made avai… Continue reading No: Administrative fine issued to Grue municipality under GDPR
Iain Thomson reports: The French equivalent of the US Secret Service may have been letting their guard down, as an investigation showed they are easily trackable via the fitness app Strava. An investigation by Le Monde has shown that members of the Sec… Continue reading Fr: Macron’s bodyguards reveal his location by sharing Strava data
Matt L. Hall reports: Hackers have again created havoc with the Internet Archive and its Wayback Machine, just one day after the site reported it had been restored. While Archive-It and the Internet Archive blog are still up, currently, the rest of IA’… Continue reading Hackers Disable Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine Once Again
Graham Cluley reports: A data breach involving the Dutch city of Eindhoven left the personal information related to almost all of its citizens exposed. As Eindhovens Dagblad reports, two files containing the personal data of 221,511 inhabitants of Eind… Continue reading Almost all citizens of city of Eindhoven have their personal data exposed
Suzanne McGonagle reports: The PSNI is facing a £750,000 fine following the spreadsheet error that exposed the personal information of its entire workforce. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said the fine comes after information relating to m… Continue reading Police Service of Northern Ireland facing £750k fine following data breach that exposed personal information of more than 9,000 staff
A notification by Guardant Health, Inc. in California (“Guardant”) caught DataBreaches’ eye yesterday. Guardant is a laboratory that performs cancer screening tests on samples received from its physician and hospital partners. Patient information… Continue reading Guardant notifies patients of unintended information exposure going back to October 2020