Mitch Keegan reports: The Mankato Clinic has notified more than 500 patients of a breach of unsecured protected health information. In a news release, Mankato Clinic says on August 3rd an electronic spreadsheet containing patient information for 535 patients was mistakenly e-mailed to a colleague of a Mankato Clinic employee to an external e-mail account. The...
Samantha Jarpe reports: Lubbock County released a statement Tuesday about previously private court information being made available to the public via a new records system. An earlier release by the Lubbock County Defense Lawyers Association characterized the incident as a data breach. The association said it became aware of the situation September 10. According...
CBC reports: The Ottawa Hospital has apologized to unvaccinated staff after an email was sent out offering a vaccine education session with each recipient’s name visible to others. The email was sent from one of the hospital’s software systems and recalled immediately, the hospital said in a statement emailed to CBC, adding all copies of the...
Jeremiah Fowler writes: On June 30th, 2021 the WebsitePlanet research team in cooperation with Security Researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered a non-password protected database that contained over 61 million records belonging to users around the world. The massive amount of exposed records were related to IOT health and fitness tracking devices. Upon further investigation there were multiple...
Gareth Corfield reports: McDonald’s customers who won a prize draw competition got more than they hoped for after the burger chain emailed them login credentials for development and production databases used to power the campaign. The first person to report the blunder to McDonald’s, startup founder Connor Greig, told The Register: “It’s a bit weird,”...
Storm Simpson reports: A new internet hacking group has claimed responsibility for a data breach at the South African National Space Agency (SANSA). The group, CoomingProject, emerged recently and according to claims made on its website, it has a list of victims across the world. Read more on The South African. SANSA confirmed the...
Zack Whittaker reports: Anti-abortion group Texas Right to Life exposed the personal information of hundreds of job applicants after a website bug allowed anyone to access their resumes, which were stored in an unprotected directory on its website. A security researcher told TechCrunch that the group’s main website, built largely in WordPress, was not...
Charlie Weston reports: A leading credit union body is seeking assurances from the Central Bank that it can protect the personal data of people who have to register with it. The call from the Irish League of Credit Unions comes after the Central Bank mistakenly gave out the names and home addresses of credit...
CBC reports: A recent report by the Saskatchewan information and privacy commissioner’s office revealed that private information of 2,841 students was accidentally made public last year. The records in question included students’ names, identification numbers, phone numbers, grades and parent email addresses. The school division, which is in southwest Saskatchewan and has more than...
Walgreens’ Covid-19 test registration system exposed — and still exposes? — patient data