What are examples of a potential privacy breach?

What are examples of a potential privacy breach?

Examples

• PII, protected student records, or financial data being emailed in plain text, or sent in unprotected attachments.
• Saving files containing PII or protected student data in a web folder that is publicly accessible online.

What is considered a privacy breach?

What is a Privacy Breach? A privacy breach involves improper or unauthorized collection, use, disclosure, retention or disposal of personal information. These Guidelines focus primarily on improper or unauthorized access to, or disclosure of, personal information as defined in the Act.

What to do if there is a privacy breach?

Notification

1. Based on the nature of the particular breach, decide whether you will report it to the Privacy Commissioner.
2. If reporting, develop and send, as soon as practicable, a report to the Privacy Commissioner which includes details about the breach and actions taken to contain it.

What can you do with a privacy breach?

When a breach does occur, you can take action by doing a few things.

1. Stay Alert. If you have been part of a data breach, the breached company may send you a notice.
2. Initiate a Fraud Alert.
3. Monitor Your Financial Accounts.
4. Monitor Your Credit Reports.
5. Freeze or Lock Your Credit File.

Can you go to jail for a data breach?

Federal Notification Laws The federal government has been slow to pass a general nationwide data breach law. The bill adds some additional teeth, including a penalty; if an individual “intentionally and willfully” conceals a data breach, they could face up to five years in jail.

How do you respond to a privacy breach?

In general, entities should:

1. take each data breach or suspected data breach seriously and move immediately to contain, assess and remediate the incident.
2. undertake steps 1 (Contain), 2 (Assess), and 3 (Notify) either simultaneously or in quick succession.
3. determine how to respond on a case-by-case basis.

How did the Accellion data breach affect universities?

A screenshot of the Cl0p website shows where stolen data from universities is being shared. Multiple higher education institutions have now confirmed they were victims of data theft related to a security flaw in file transfer software sold by IT security company Accellion, but the true scale of the data breach is still not fully understood.

What was the extent of the Facebook privacy breach?

Facebook’s alleged data misuse hit the headlines (again) on Thursday as Business Insider revealed that the company had “harvested the email contacts of 1.5 million users without their knowledge or consent when they opened their accounts.”. The privacy breach came to light when a security researcher questioned why Facebook was asking…

How many people are affected by the ProctorU breach?

A data breach has affected almost half a million users of an online examination tool ProctorU, which is widely used by educational institutions worldwide. The hackers from the Shiny Hunters group has published the database online, exposing details of 444,267 users, Hackread.com can confirm.