Bogdan Botezatu reports: A massive numbers of Prodigy subscribers in Mexico have had their email conversations exposed overnight because of a security flaw in the company’s mobile e-mail and web-based mail systems. According to a news report by El Economista, the flaw allowed search engines to simply index private conversations and list them on the…
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UK: ICO Looking Into Daily Mail Privacy Fail
Tom Brewster reports: The Daily Mail has leaked user data thanks to a technical glitch that appeared to sign its online readers in as the wrong person. The popular right-leaning paper will now face inquiries from the UK’s privacy watchdog. On Tuesday, users complained that when they logged in to the Mail Online, they were recognised as a…
How much did that meal really cost you?
Some days, it’s just disheartening how little progress we seem to have made in preventing some of the most common types of breaches. Today’s example is from Glenmont, New York: … everybody who has eaten at the Golden Town Buffet since June 15th through August 5th and used either a credit or debit card to…
Boxes with personal info found in trash
We really need stronger laws protecting the security and disposal of paper records. Today’s example is from Beaverton, Oregon: Seven large boxes filled with personal information of clients from the Sylvan Learning Center, including names, birth dates, Social Security numbers and credit card information, were found in a Dumpster in Beaverton. Read more on KOIN….
Plaintiff in LinkedIn lawsuit says harm is irrelevant and the issue is deception
MainJustice has an update to the LinkedIn lawsuit concerning their massive hack last year. As expected, LinkedIn moved to dismiss on the grounds that the plaintiff hasn’t suffered any harm and hasn’t proved they used outdated security, but the plaintiff responds that harm is irrelevant – she wouldn’t have purchased a premium account if it…
US Airways resets passwords for Dividend Miles accounts, notifies customers of breach (updated)
When I saw “US Airways” appear on California’s public breach report site, I thought it was going to be the ADP-related breach I reported last week. But no, it seems that US Airways had another breach, this one discovered on July 12. In an undated letter with a file creation date of August 2, Fernand…