Paul Boyd reports:
Personal information connected to hundreds of Lowe’s customers has been compromised.
The breach is connected to a fax machine in Vancouver, Canada. A spokesperson from the company that owns the machine does not want to be identified, but said they have received more than 250 pages of customer order information in recent days.
“It is definitely a privacy breach,” an employee of the company based in Vancouver said.
The orders that were sent to the wrong fax machine contain each customer’s full name, address and phone number.
Read more on WSOC-TV.
Name, address and phone number are arguably public records. Phone number might technically not be public, but phone numbers are usually distributed without much thought by their owners all the time.
I don’t see a breach here.