Natasha Bita reports: Another Australia Post computer glitch has exposed the names and locations of thousands of Australians who have been sent parcels. Australia Post was forced to shut down its electronic parcel tracking service yesterday, after an angry customer blew the whistle on the privacy and security breach. Customers who typed a random number…
Category: Breach Incidents
PLS Financial/Payday Loan Store settles government charges of improper disposal of customer records
Via Courthouse News: PLS Financial Services/The Payday Loan Store/PLS Check Cashers, which have more than 300 outlets in 9 states, expose customers to ID theft by dumping personal financial information into Dumpsters, the USA says in Federal Court. The lawsuit was brought at the request of the FTC, and I’ve uploaded the complaint and stipulated…
UK: Housing association email attachment gaffe discloses employees’ sensitive personal information
Nick Duxbury reports: A housing association has launched an internal investigation after it sent sensitive personal information about its employees to hundreds of staff. Network Housing Group accidentally emailed around 300 staff a spreadsheet understood to contain details of employees’ sexuality, ethnicity and disability status. The Information Commissioner’s Office and the housing regulator have been…
Ca: Calgary Board of Education hit by new privacy breach as laptop containing 2,000 report cards stolen
Richard Cuthbertson reports that the Calgary Board of Education has had a second breach this month. I had missed the first one, I think. This latest one happened October 5th after an employee left a laptop containing the report cards of more than 2,000 students in a car. The laptop was stolen. Kindergarten to Grade 9…
Update on Northwest Florida State College breach
I updated the original post for a while, but thought it worth mentioning that the number of fraud reports from NWFSC employees continues to grow. It’s now up to 86, up 26 from a week ago. I hope all employees have flagged or frozen their accounts.
Southern Environmental Law Center hacked
CBS in Birmingham, Alabama reports a breach involving the Southern Environmental Law Center. The station reports that credit card information, medical information and donor information were acquired and dumped on the Internet, although at the time of this posting, I’m not seeing any data dumps. Personal details also reportedly include addresses, phone, numbers, and client…