Yet another email service provider has been compromised for customer names and email addresses. Kroger Co. is letting customers know a breach of a database with its customers’ names and email addresses. The breach occurred at Epsilon, a national third-party email fulfillment company headquartered in Dallas. […] In the email Kroger sent to customers, the…
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Calif. property tax payment system hacked from Philippines
Mike Harris reports: Ventura County’s online credit card payment system was apparently hacked from the Philippines, enabling scam emails to be sent to many residents who used the system to pay their 2007 property taxes, officials said this week. Treasurer-Tax Collector Steven Hintz said the phishing emails appeared to be sent over the weekend in…
Adult Performers' Real Names, Addresses Posted on Wikileaks-Style Site
More on that very distressing privacy breach involving the publication of personally identifying information about adult porn actors. Buzz Killington writes: … It is an open secret within the industry that the website, Pornwikileaks.com, has published the real names and addresses of over 12,000 performers, opening them up to potential harassment by predators or others…
WA: Wenatchee Valley College notifies former students of data breach
Rachel Schleif reports on another breach that occurred in the context of responding to a public records request: Wenatchee Valley College accidentally released Social Security numbers of students who attended classes there 10 years ago. The college sent letters of apology to more than 3,800 former students Monday, and urged them to place fraud alerts…
Army suicide prevention efforts raising privacy concerns
Greg Zoroya reports: An Army effort to reduce suicides by sharing more of soldiers’ personal therapy information with squad, platoon or company leaders — even in cases where there is no threat of self-harm — is pushing the limit of privacy laws, say civilian experts on medical records restrictions. Soldiers may be discouraged from seeking…
AHF: Breach of Porn Actors’ Data Reveals Failure of AIM Clinic Testing Model
The following is a press release from AHF: After over 12,000 current and former adult film performers who tested for HIV and other STDs at the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation’s (AIM) HIV Testing Clinic in Sherman Oaks had their privacy breached when their personal data collected from AIM was published illegally on a Wiki-leaks…