Graham Cluley reports a second breach involving the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART): A database belonging to the BART Police Officers Association appears to have been hacked, and the names, postal and email addresses of officers posted online. Just over 100 officers are listed in the document, in what is clearly a serious security breach….
Author: Dissent
Ca: Personal data from mortgage broker found in garbage bin
Miranda Scotland reports: Construction workers found five boxes of files containing personal information in a garbage Tuesday in Edmonton. The files from a mortgage broker contained information such as social insurance numbers, credit card information and mortgage values, said Wayne Wood, spokesman for Alberta’s privacy commissioner which is investigating. There are a lot of people’s…
Update on Gallatin, TN card fraud
Law enforcement continues to shield the name of a breached business in Gallatin, Tennessee, even though they acknowledge that past customers might still become victims. Sarah Kingsbury reports, in part: To date, Gallatin police have received 203 fraud reports related to the outbreak, with the majority of charges showing up on bank and credit card…
Security breach in April 2010 reported to affected Purdue U. math students in 2011
If you’ve taken a math class at Purdue, your security could be at risk. Purdue University (PU) said 7,093 former students and faculty who took part in a math course could be at risk. University officials said an unauthorized person broke into their computer system on April 5, 2010, and tried to use the server…
NCSU research info on Wilson students mistakenly put online
Data housed on a North Carolina State University computer server that contained private information for about 1,800 school children from Wilson and Richmond counties was mistakenly put online, officials said Tuesday. The data, which was gathered from 2003 to 2006 as part of a research study on classroom practices, includes names, Social Security numbers and…
Two London Borough of Greenwich e-mail breaches involving sensitive information result in undertaking
The London Borough of Greenwich recently signed an undertaking with the Information Commissioner’s Office following two incidents in which unencrypted personal and sensitive information were disclosed due to: (1) failure to encrypt and (2) sending sensitive information by e-mail to external addresses at all . From the undertaking: The Information Commissioner (the ‘Commissioner’) was provided…