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Category: Breach Incidents

Professor emails private student records by accident

Posted on April 26, 2010 by Dissent

Mike LaCount reports: On April 8, students in the UW-Milwaukee Geography department received an e-mail containing personal information of former UWM students, but the message was removed before most of the recipients opened it. Judith Kenny, associate professor and undergraduate program chair for the department of geography, sent an e-mail to 97 students in the…

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Security fears as HSBC forgets to BCC

Posted on April 25, 2010 by Dissent

Ben Flanagan reports: Some of HSBC Middle East’s wealthiest customers have complained that their privacy has been compromised after the bank sent a mass mailout to its ‘Premier’ customers – whom are required to maintain a minimum balance or investment of AED350,000 ($95,300) – with customers’ email addresses visible in the ‘To’ field. The customer…

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Data Redaction: You’re Doing it Wrong

Posted on April 25, 2010 by Dissent

John Bambenek writes: PDF files are a common way to distribute documents on the Internet and even are used for distributing documents with redacted (removed) content. However, when you distribute redacted documents make sure that the data you don’t want out there isn’t, in fact, still in the file. Case in point, take the upcoming…

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IN: Local debit cards affected in breach

Posted on April 23, 2010 by Dissent

One to watch…. Lafayette police say a national debit card security breach is hitting close to home. According to police, this compromise has affected customers from a string of local restaurants and other businesses. And it’s hit several of the area’s banks and credit unions. “I have spoken with a lot of the local financial…

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ESB tells customers of leak

Posted on April 23, 2010 by Dissent

Bobbi Mlynar reports: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure for ESB Financial officials who this morning announced that a data backup seven years ago had inadvertently been sent to an unauthorized storage source. Marketing Vice President Karen Sommers said that the bank had hired a specialist to work on a special…

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(follow-up) Suit over canola growers’ lost laptop dropped

Posted on April 23, 2010 by Dissent

Remember when a laptop stolen from the Canadian Canola Growers Association in 2008 resulted in 32,000 farmers being notified that their social insurance numbers and bank account information was in unknown hands? The Manitoba Co-Operator reports that a proposed class action lawsuit against the government and CCGA over the breach has been dropped. Regina lawyer…

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