Personal and sensitive data of 59,000 charter school students in California...
California Virtual Academies (CAVA) is a network of 11 publicly funded charter k-12 schools in California. Researcher Chris Vickery recently contacted DataBreaches.net after he found a database with...
View ArticleAU: Over 30,000 Optus customers’ debt data exposed on job freelancer site
Josh Taylor reports: The personal data of 31,150 mostly former Optus customers was posted on short-term job website Freelancer.com in major breach of their privacy, Crikey can reveal. Earlier this...
View ArticleBernie Sanders’ campaign disciplined for data breach
Bernie Sanders’ campaign has been disciplined by the Democratic National Committee after at least one staffer took advantage of a software glitch that allowed for review of Hillary Clinton’s private...
View ArticleBernie Sanders’ presidential campaign sues the DNC
It wouldn’t be a presidential campaign without at least one data leak, right? So a contractor screws up, allowing Sanders’ staffers to access Clintons’ data on potential voters. Clinton campaign...
View ArticleCa: Breach forces shut down of LaSalle’s new online registration system
Julie Kotsis reports that the Town of LaSalle‘s new online recreation department registration system had a bug that exposed people’s personal information for almost one month until someone reported it...
View ArticleUK: Unknown number of students hit by glitch that delivered SACE students...
Tim Williams reports: Education Minister Susan Close has admitted she does not know how many Year 12 students were affected by the SACE computer bungle that delivered the wrong university entrance...
View ArticleMedical Informatics data breach litigation centralized and transferred
Linn Freedman updates us all on litigation stemming from a breach previously reported on this site: We previously reported on the multiple data breach litigation suits filed against Medical Informatics...
View ArticleFL: Medical records found scattered on Fort Myers street identified
WINK News reports: Hundreds of medical records from patients at Radiology Regional Center spilled out on Fowler Street earlier Saturday morning, causing a major traffic tie up. The records included...
View ArticleBucking Clapper? Massachusetts court holds patients have standing to sue...
In August, 2014, I noted a report involving a transcription contractor of Boston Medical Center exposing patient information on the Internet. BMC notified approximately 15,000 patients and fired MDF...
View ArticleEtihad probing possible data breach of 7,000 loyalty program customers
Alexander Cornwell reports: Etihad Airways on Wednesday said it is investigating a possible leak of data belonging to customers who took part in a promotional campaign in 2013. Personal details of...
View ArticleNearly 21,000 customer records hit by Blue Shield security breach
Courtney Perkes reports: Blue Shield of California announced Thursday that personal information from nearly 21,000 individual and family plan customers was accessed in a security breach late last year....
View ArticleAlleged Scotiabank privacy breach leads to class action
The Chronicle Herald reports: An Antigonish woman has filed a proposed class action against the Bank of Nova Scotia, alleging an employee illegally accessed her personal information and then...
View ArticleSan Diego County employees’ details erroneously sent to Wells Fargo
Right before Christmas, the County of San Diego Benefits Division discovered that some employees’ personal information had been inadvertently shared with Wells Fargo. The problem arose when the county...
View ArticleKR: Credit card firms ordered to compensate consumers for data leak
The Korea Herald reports the latest development in a massive data leak first reported at the end of 2013: A local court on Friday ordered three credit card-related companies, hit by a massive data leak...
View ArticleOH: Community Mercy Health Partners notifies patients after vendor improperly...
There’s an update to a breach reported previously on this site. From a statement on their site: Community Mercy Health Partners (CMHP) and its hospitals, Springfield Regional Medical Center and Mercy...
View ArticleNCH Healthcare employee data potentially compromised (UPDATED)
ABC7 has confirmed that data on two of NCH Healthcare System‘s computers may have been breached at the Cerner Data Center in Kansas City, Missouri. The information contained on the computer servers...
View ArticleTalkTalk call centre staff manacled over security breach
Kelly Fiveash reports: TalkTalk has turned three workers—based at a call centre provider in India—over to the police, as part of its ongoing investigation into the budget ISP’s security practices,...
View ArticleGyft Notifies Affected Users of Security Incident
Back in December, Brian Krebs reported: Digital gift card retailer Gyft has forced a password reset for some of its users. The move comes in response to the theft of usernames and passwords from a...
View ArticleNOT SO SECURUS: PART 2 Lawyers Speak Out About Massive Hack of Prisoners’...
The Intercept follows up on its earlier report in which a hack of Securus revealed that 70 million phone calls had been recorded – many involving what should be privileged communications between...
View ArticleMisconfigured MongoDB installation left Microsoft careers site vulnerable to...
Chris Vickery writes: An exposed database was serving potentially arbitrary HTML through the mobile version of Microsoft’s careers page (m.careersatmicrosoft.com). Punchkick Interactive is a mobile web...
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