Collaborate Disseminate
Melia Masumoto reports: Cedar Park Middle School sent out an email to 207 parents earlier this week, requesting updated vaccine records. But without blind coping the email addresses, every address on the email was visible to all the recipients. …… Continue reading Leander ISD sends email about students’ vaccination status to over 200 people
The following press release was issued August 30 by Sweden’s Authority for Privacy Protection (IMY): Trygg-Hansa’s security flaws have meant that information on 650,000 customers has been accessible via the internet. The Privacy Protection … Continue reading Sweden’s Privacy Protection Agency fines insurer Trygg-Hansa for exposing sensitive customer data
Ben Doherty reports: The Australian government may be liable for tens of millions of dollars in compensation to asylum seekers after it posted their personal details online while they were in immigration detention. The mass data breach, discovered by G… Continue reading Au: Federal government could pay millions in compensation over asylum seeker data breach
Amanda Audi reports: Federal government agencies were convicted for leaking data of beneficiaries of Auxilio Brasil, a flagship federal aid program now renamed as Bolsa Familia, to financial agencies offering payroll deduction loans to low-income Brazi… Continue reading Brazil’s government convicted for data leak exposed by The Brazilian Report
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports on yet another incident in which responsible disclosure by a researcher and follow-up by media failed to get a company to address vulnerabilities that left the personal information of customers exposed: A company t… Continue reading Maker of ‘smart’ chastity cage left users’ emails, passwords, and locations exposed
Dutch News reports: A data breach at the Dutch land registry Kadaster has exposed the addresses of every homeowner in the Netherlands, an investigation by RTL Nieuws has found. The privacy watchdog AP called for the agency to close the loophole immedia… Continue reading NL: Security breach at land registry exposes millions of addresses
Yoav Gonen reports: The city Department of Finance inadvertently emailed a roster of all of its staff — containing home addresses, cell numbers and personal email addresses — to the agency’s roughly 1,800 employees in a botched test of its emergency no… Continue reading NYC Finance Department Sent Every Employee Their Colleagues’ Personal Info
Norfolk and Suffolk constabularies have identified an issue relating to a very small percentage of responses to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests for crime statistics, issued between April 2021 and March 2022. A technical issue has led to some raw … Continue reading UK: Press notice regarding data breach at Norfolk and Suffolk police
Jon Macpherson reports: Another police force has admitted a data breach after the names and salaries of all its staff were accidentally published online. Cumbria Police said that on March 6 it found out information about pay and allowances had been upl… Continue reading Cumbria Police admits huge data breach as names and salaries of staff published online
Daisy Graham-Brown reports: Police in Northern Ireland have been involved in a data breach ‘of monumental proportions’ affecting thousands of officers and civilian staff. The major breach reportedly involves names, ranks and other personal … Continue reading Outrage at massive police data breach that saw the personal details of more than 10,000 PSNI officers and staff accidentally published online