Yomiuri Shimbun reports: An investigation into the recent unauthorized access of personal information from the Japan Pension Service found that 99 percent of the files accessed were not protected by passwords, sources said. This contrasts with multiple reports issued since 2013 by all JPS offices nationwide claiming full compliance on password rules. If the files…
Month: July 2015
Oops. A school sends all eighth-grade report cards to every family in the grade
Valerie Strauss reports: Oops. An elementary school in Connecticut accidentally e-mailed the report cards for every eighth-grade student to every eighth-grade family. Instead of sending a single report card as a secure document to a single family, someone sent all of the student evaluations as an attachment to the entire grade at Cromwell Middle School,…
KY: Former Cash Express employee arrested
Christy Hoots reports: A former employee of Cash Express has been arrested after she was found to have allegedly taken out fraudulent loans in the names of former customers. Maysville Police Detective T.C. Rice said 30-year-old Emily Fletcher of Maysville, turned herself into police Thursday around 3 p.m. She was arrested and lodged in the…
Privacy Blunder Exposes Mozilla Developers’ Phone Numbers
Ionut Ilascu reports: AMO developers that signed for a free t-shirt from Mozilla had their information exposed for a short period of time due to poor configuration of the online form that collected the data. […] Anyone fitting one of the three eligibility categories has to reserve their t-shirt by signing up on a Google…
MI: Around 85K affected in FireKeepers Casino data breach
WoodTV has an update/follow-up on a FireKeepers Casino breach first disclosed in May. Information from thousands of credit and debit cards may have been stolen during a data security breach at FireKeepers Casino in Battle Creek. Officials with FireKeepers Casino confirmed Friday that approximately 85,000 credit and debit cards used between September 7, 2014, and…
MasterCard Wants To Scan Your Face
J.E. Reich reports: MasterCard might make identity theft a little bit harder — they’re working toward introducing face scanning software that will determine approval of your purchases. The financial services company is planning to launch a test program this fall with a starter group of 500 MasterCard customers this fall. The app is designed with dead accuracy,…