Diana Lee reports: Twenty-one police officers have been disciplined over leaks in police data that have appeared online, Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data Roderick Woo Bun said yesterday. Woo said the figure was confirmed in a meeting with Police Commissioner Tang King-shing, who also said the leaks were not caused by hackers or failures in…
Category: Breach Incidents
TSA, HSBC in secret doc redaction oopsie
John Leyden of The Register reports on the HSBC redaction breach reported previously on this site, but also alerts us to a TSA redaction goof that does not involve personal information but is more of a national security concern or risk: Blacked-out portions of a TSA document on screening techniques could be reversed by a…
MI: Possible security breach at Flagstar
WOOD-TV reports: There is the possibility of a security breach at Flagstar Bank, according to a letter it sent out to some customers Nov. 25. A laptop owned by a bank vendor was stolen, and inside the computer were some customers’ social security numbers. “We have no reason to believe that the files with this…
NC: Kids’ Social Security numbers on school postcards
Josh Shaffer reports: The Wake County school system accidentally sent out about 5,000 postcards with students’ Social Security numbers printed on the front, a mistake that angered parents and will cost the district nearly $100,000 to remedy. On Tuesday, Wake schools mailed about 15,000 reminders asking parents to specify if they want to keep their…
BCBS of TN issues breach notification for stolen hard drive
Remember the BlueCross breach in Chattanooga from October. First it was 57 hard drives, then 68, then 3, then 1, depending on which report you read. Now it’s 57 again, it seems. Today, Blue Cross issued a breach notification on its web site, as required by the new HITECH Act: Required Substitute HITECH Act Notice…
Security breach compromises information on 1,400 District 86 grads
Sandy Illian Bosch reports: A security breach discovered last month at the University of Nebraska involved the names, addresses and Social Security numbers of 1,400 Hinsdale High School District 86 graduates. The breach involved a computer in the College of Education and Human Sciences at the Lincoln campus. The university’s investigation revealed the computer had…