Peter Schroeder reports: A serious data breach at the Securities and Exchange Commission transferred personal data about current and former employees into the computer system of another federal agency, a letter sent by the SEC to staff reveals. The July 8 letter, obtained by The Hill, is from Thomas Bayer, the SEC’s chief information officer…
Month: July 2013
Baltimore DPW contacting employees in privacy breach
WBAL reports: Baltimore City officials are trying to contact city employees whose information was compromised when a box was found tossed on a street containing vital and personal employee information….. Discarded as trash, the box contained vital records of thousands of current and former Baltimore City employees — Social Security numbers, birthdates, driver’s license information…
9,885 User accounts leaked from Intercessors for America by Anonymous
An Anonymous hacktivist has tipped us of to a leak of data from the main server for the sites of Intercessors for America. Intercessors for America runs ifapray.org and getamericapraying.com and is associated with god which with what we have seen in the past never plays out well when it comes to the anonymous hacktivist. Intercessors for America (IFA)…
Tinder’s privacy breach lasted much longer than the company claimed
Zachary Seward reports: Mobile dating app Tinder appears to have exposed the physical location of its users for much longer than a “few hours,” as the company’s chief executive claimed. New evidence suggests the privacy breach dated back at least two weeks. Quartz reported yesterday that the data files sent from Tinder’s servers to its apps had been…
KPMG found leaking data, as it criticises every single company in the FTSE 350 for doing the same
And irony meters everywhere explode. Graham Cluley explains.
Citi Bike: Customer Credit Cards Exposed
The Wall Street Journal reports: A Citi Bike software glitch accidentally exposed sensitive personal and financial information—including credit card numbers—of more than 1,000 of its account holders, the bike sharing program’s operators wrote in a letter last week to the affected customers. The data breach occurred on April 15, according to a letter sent to…