Rob Shaw and Lindsay Kines report: Mistakes, missed opportunities and bureaucratic bungling led more than two dozen officials to botch the B.C. government’s response to a major privacy breach, according to a scathing internal review released yesterday. The investigation found supervisors in four provincial ministries used poor judgment and failed to alert the right people…
Category: Breaches
Another Kids Zone ex-worker facing charges
Joe Callahan reports: Another former employee of the troubled Kids Zone USA day care center has been arrested. Authorities say she signed another woman’s name on several fire inspection reports, and once even hid from the fire inspector in a dark closet. Barbara Kyle, 39, who now lives in Atlanta, turned herself in at the…
UK: Confidentiality breach as nurse tells teen’s family of secret abortion
A hospital in Luton has launched an internal review following reports that an NHS nurse allegedly rang the relative of a teenage girl who had been admitted to hospital with complications following an abortion. According to reports, the 16-year-old girl was thrown out of her home when her devoutly Catholic mother was informed of her…
Personal data stolen? Don’t count on being told promptly.
Andrea Rock of Consumer Reports highlights one of the findings of a new Ponemon report described on DataBreaches.net: Not only are data breaches from criminal attacks on U.S.-based companies’ financial and customer data on the rise, but your odds of being promptly informed if you’re a breach victim aren’t very high, according to a new…