Ingrid Lunden reports: A while back we wrote about a flaw in Groupon’s email link encryption, which revealed the emails of some Groupon users when “addx” was added into a Google search of Groupon’s site. We’ve been alerted that is still happening, with about 170 emails coming up when we searched (last time around it was less than 80)….
Category: Business Sector
AU: Telstra breached customers’ privacy
Jacqueline Le reports: The communications watchdog has slammed Telstra for publishing the personal details of more than 700,000 customers online for most of last year. As many as 734,000 Telstra customers had their names, addresses and, in some cases, driver’s licence details and dates of birth, published online between March and December 2011. The user…
AU: Alert over hotel privacy
Hannah Martin reports: Consumer action groups are warning companies to take better care of client information after a Hobart hotel breached the privacy of more than 600 guests. Quest Trinity apartments blamed a “glitch” in their email system for sending out promotional material that revealed the contact details of their guests. Recipients were not blind…
Real Life Computer Privacy Breach For Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs?
Mark Coupe writes: Ever since coming out of nowhere and wowing the world at E3, pretty much everyone has been talking about Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs. Looking and feeling truly next-gen both in its AI and astounding visuals many people think we are looking at a launch title for the next series of consoles. Meanwhile Ubisoft…
FTC Files Complaint Against Wyndham Hotels For Failure to Protect Consumers’ Personal Information
Woo hoo. I had such a headache trying to sort out Wyndham’s breaches (see previous blog entries on Wyndham) and was concerned that at least one state had removed their notification from public view on the state’s web site because Wyndham had asked that it be treated as confidential. Now it seems the FTC has…
Employee files found outside Fred’s Super Dollar in Midfield
Mike McClanahan reports from Alabama: A tip from viewer led CBS42 to a stack of files full of valuable personal information, just out in the open…ripe for the picking for identity thieves. There were ten folders in all. Full of employee names, phone numbers, social security numbers, addresses, work histories, birthdays, and even copies of…