WPMI reports that an app developed to help Alabamians apply for unemployment benefits and check on their status was exposing personal information: Our sister station WBMA in Birmingham did some digging and found out that new app exposed the personal information of unemployment applicants to others. Rhonda Jones says when she tried to view her daughter’s documents…
Category: Exposure
Personal data of thousands of “Figaro” readers exposed on a server
The following is a Google translation of a story in Le Monde by Damien Leloupe: A large volume of data, including personal data of subscribers and subscribers to the Figaro site , remained accessible for several months online without protection, reveals a report by the computer security company Safety Detective , published Thursday, April 30. The Safety Detective team discovered…
UK: Nine million logs of Brits’ road journeys spill onto the internet from password-less number-plate camera dashboard
Gareth Corfield reports: In a blunder described as “astonishing and worrying,” Sheffield City Council’s automatic number-plate recognition (ANPR) system exposed to the internet 8.6 million records of road journeys made by thousands of people, The Register can reveal. Read more on The Register.
Former Prime Communications employee sent personal info of thousands of Prime employees in prime email gaffe
Austin Breasette reports: Thousands of employees’ personal information was sent right to a former Prime Communications employee’s email. “I’ve never experienced anything like this before,” said Tonya Smith. Smith said nothing but nervousness filled her mind after the human resources department sent her 105 pages of personal information of thousands of Prime Communications employees across…
Optus facing class action over alleged customer privacy breaches
Tammy Mills reports: Optus has been hit with a class action complaint after it mistakenly published the names, addresses and phone numbers of tens of thousands of customers. The details of about 50,000 of the telco’s customers were published in the White Pages, run by Sensis, last year. Read more on Sydney Morning Herald.
IN: Nagaland govt investigating data leak of stranded persons
Medolenuo Ambrocia reports: Kohima: A major data breach in the government of Nagaland website to help citizens stranded outside the state has led to personal details of these individuals being exposed. Personal information including bank account details, AADHAAR number, phone numbers, address etc have been leaked into the public domain. This is serious as this private…