Rian from RedTeam Protection, a division of Tony Josephs and Sons Investigations Inc., just sent me another batch of p2p cockups that exposed personal — and in some cases — sensitive medical — information. In each case, RedTeam advised the entity and/or helped ensure removal of the filesharing application. Some of these breaches are more…
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UK: Busy Bees childcare voucher data leak plugged – Update
A UK child care voucher scheme has been taken off line after user Nick Gibbins found that the “web” application was exposing personal data for over one hundred thousand users. Gibbins found that the Busy Bees childcare voucher system was actually implemented using Citrix Metaframe, exporting the user interface from a Windows 2000 application to…
Laptop theft from JetDirect Aviation offices leaves thousands at risk
When JetDirect Aviation Holdings, LLC discovered that a laptop had been stolen from the accounting area of its Weymouth Massachusetts location sometime during the evening of February 2 or early morning of February 3, it wasted no time. The data on the laptop affected 1,576 current employees, as well as 651 former employees, and an…
WA: Kennewick real estate agent sentenced for ID theft scheme
Kristin M. Kraemer reports: A 56-year-old woman who helped her adult daughter defraud bank customers so they could buy expensive online goods tearfully said Tuesday that their relationship is forever changed. Cynthia Jean Walker was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Richland to six months in federal custody — the same sentence her daughter received…
OK: Personal data stolen in SemGroup case
Rod Walton reports: Online banking bandits pulled thousands of dollars from the accounts of current and former SemGroup LP employees after personal information was inadvertently left on a bankruptcy court document made public last summer. SemGroup officials said, however, that as far as they are aware, all the money was returned to the accounts and…
CO: ‘Anti-Gym’ Personal Records Found In Dumpster
Rick Sallinger reports: Personal information on clients of a now-shuttered Denver gym has turned up in a very public place. Two weeks ago the Internal Revenue Service shut down the “Anti-Gym” for non-payment of payroll taxes. Somehow many of the gym’s records turned up outside in the trash. … There was information about gay relationships,…