I was just reading news story about a breach in Maryland, and was surprised to learn that the Maryland Attorney General’s Office had charged two health care entities with improper disposal of records and that both cases had settled over the summer. Here’s the press release from August 27, 2013: Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler…
Month: November 2013
MD: Sensitive info found in now-defunct law group’s dumpster
A now-defunct law firm gets itself bad press for insecurely disposing of client files: We’re not in the habit of picking through the trash, but sometimes we’re willing to get our hands dirty, especially when we hear your information has been tossed aside like it’s worthless. We went digging in a Baltimore County dumpster after…
QuizUp security flaw sends your personal data to other players
You may want to hold off on playing popular trivia game QuizUp, as the game may be sending your personal information to other players. This security and privacy flaw was detected by developer Kyle Richter and described in a recent blog. According to Richter, the QuizUp game sends your personal information to other players via…
UT: Cop fat-fingers speeding citation and discloses another motorist’s SSN and details to the wrong driver
Devon Dolan reports: Mark Allen said he was recently pulled over for speeding in Heber City. he said the gave the police officer his license and registration information, but when he received his citation, it had someone else’s information on it. “When I got home, I looked at it and it wasn’t my name,” Allen…
PSN EU resets many user passwords as a “precautionary measure”
Jeffrey Matulef reports: Sony Europe has reset the passwords for a number of PSN users as a “precautionary measure.” The only problem is it forgot to tell people it was doing this, leading to panic as many inexplicably were unable to log in to Sony’s online service. Read more on EuroGamer.
Ouch: Tumblr gaffe exposed passwords in plain text
Tumblr, which had to apologize to iOS users for revealing email addresses and passwords back in July, may need to start apologizing again for what appears to be another screw-up. A DataBreaches.net reader writes: I received a notice from Tumblr that congratulated me for 1 year with them. Problem is, instead of using my user…