Mary Conway reports that a Michigan man who found a file with with personal documents in a dumpster at the corner of Maybee Road and Gregory in Oakland County turned the documents over to the police. “It was vital information, like social security numbers, license numbers, dates of birth even bank account numbers” Wysocki said….
Category: Breach Incidents
Sophisticated Attack Yields Data On IEEE Members
Paul Roberts reports: IEEE, the world’s leading society for technical professionals, has warned some 800 members that their credit card and personal information may have been stolen. The FBI has been notified of the breach. The group disclosed the November, 2010 breach in a letter to the New Hampshire Attorney General, dated February 24, in…
Missing BP laptop had personal data of claimants (updated)
Associated Press reports that a BP employee lost a laptop containing unencrypted personal information on approximately 13,000 people who had filed compensation claims prior to August 2010 stemming from the Gulf oil spill. Read more on Quad-Cities Online. BP did not provide any details on the types of information for each claimant or any gap…
UK: 83,000 customer details leaked by Co-op
Joe McGrath reports: The Co-operative Group has issued a public apology after a data error led to the customer details of 83,000 people being published online. Customers of Co-operative Life Planning and Co-operative Wills & Funeral Planning were affected by the error at a third party support services provider which resulted in the customer details…
NY: Student Records Found Dumped in Trash Bins
Andrea Day reports that files found tossed in a dumpster behind a strip mall on Long Island were from the Huntington Learning Center in East Northport. The woman who found the files said she couldn’t believe what she found in the trash bins behind the store where she works. The files had ages, work numbers, and…
Cn: Bank details on the web
Jia Feishang reports: China’s biggest search engine, Baidu, removed files containing the personal details of thousands of locals from its document-sharing platform yesterday, following public outcry over the breach of privacy. But although those files were deleted, people’s personal information can easily be found on the Internet. Shanghai Daily has discovered similar documents online, including…