Tyler Olsen reports: A Chilliwack woman is facing multiple charges after Mounties uncovered what they say was a complex identity theft scheme that included pieces of ID stolen from Abbotsford. Mounties found around 1,000 stolen personal ID cards along with computer hard drives full of credit card data while executing a search warrant at a…
Category: Breach Incidents
Winnipeg MP’s mass email exposes 1,500 addresses
CBC News reports: A Winnipeg Conservative MP’s recent email is raising privacy concerns, as it displays the email addresses of more than 1,500 recipients. Bateman’s Bulletin, an electronic newsletter sent by Winnipeg South Centre MP Joyce Bateman’s office on Friday evening, did not conceal the names or email addresses of those who received it. Bateman’s…
Personal information stolen from 2 nonprofits
Christian Cazares reports that burglaries at the American Heart Association and Olive Crest offices in Las Vegas resulted in the theft of personal information stored on laptops. Read more on KVVU. “
IEEE leaks 100,000 members’ usernames and plain-text passwords (update3)
Seen on Slashdot, Radu Dragusin writes: IEEE suffered a data breach which I discovered on September 18. For a few days I was uncertain what to do with the information and the data. Yesterday I let them know, and they fixed (at least partially) the problem. The usernames and passwords kept in plaintext were publicly…
CT: Willimantic town employees’ information was on unattended laptop stolen from employee’s office
Alison Shea reports: Willimantic police are asking for the public’s help in recovering a laptop containing town employees’ information that was stolen from Town Hall a week ago. Police said in a release late Sunday that a town employee had left the laptop unattended in his office in Windham Town Hall from 10 a.m. to…
Potential Tulsa website hacker victims notified (update: nothing to see here, move along)
Glenn Schroeder reports: The City of Tulsa’s website is still down after a hacker infiltration. And now people who submitted job applications and police reports on-line are getting letters from the city, warning their personal information may be in the hands of a hacker. In the letter the city says, “The personal information that may…