If you’re going to have a data gaffe, try to avoid having a reporter be the recipient…. Chris Williams of The Register reports: Police face accusations of incompetence after accidentally emailing a file detailing the results of thousands of criminal records checks to a Register journalist. The author of the email at Gwent Police is…
Category: Breach Incidents
95 new breaches in 2010 that didn’t make the news
The good folks over at the Identity Theft Resource Center recently posted a very gracious thank-you to me and this site for helping track data breaches. I suspect that they’ll be pulling their hair out this weekend, though. 🙂 In addition to the 100 previously unreported breaches from 2009 that I posted here today, here…
100 more breaches you probably never knew about in 2009
As noted here and elsewhere, the number of breaches reported in the media and other sources declined in 2009 relative to 2008, but newly obtained data suggests that once again, there was much that we did not know. During the period September 1 – December 31, 2009,  141 breach reports were received by the…
NY’s Higher Education Services Corp had its own breach last year
In discussing the huge Educational Credit Management Corp data breach previously covered on this site, Rick Karlin of the Times Union mentions a second and unrelated breach, this one by New York’s Higher Education Services Corp: [The breach] happened back in December when 1,433 e-mails from HESC ran into a “process error” by which the…
Boy, 9, accused of hacking into Fairfax schools’ computer system
Tom Jackman reports: Are you smarter than a third-grader? Because the online education system used by the Fairfax County public schools apparently is not. Police say a 9-year-old McLean boy hacked into the Blackboard Learning System used by the county school system to change teachers’ and staff members’ passwords, change or delete course content, and…
Missing Woodbury Financial USB contained client data
Woodbury Financial Services, an affiliate of The Hartford, is a broker-dealer using independent registered agents. On or about March 16, one of the agents gave WFS an unencrypted USB drive containing client data. The USB was subsequently found to be missing, and a search of the premises was unsuccessful. Woodbury Financial notified the New Hampshire…