Emily Baker reports: The University of Canberra has accidentally sent some staff the personal details of every employee, including their birth date, classification, average hours and salary. Vice-chancellor Deep Saini said an “administrative error” led to 24 employees receiving the email with searchable data on all their colleagues attached. Read more on Canberra Times.
Category: Exposure
Chase ‘Glitch’ Exposed Customer Accounts
Brian Krebs reports: Multiple Chase.com customers have reported logging in to their bank accounts, only to be presented with another customer’s bank account details. Chase has acknowledged the incident, saying it was caused by an internal “glitch” Wednesday evening that did not involve any kind of hacking attempt or cyber attack. Trish Wexler, director of…
AU: City of Ballarat privacy nightmare: resident details posted online
Ashleigh McMillan reports: More than 70 Ballarat residents have had their home addresses – and in some cases phone numbers and email addresses – leaked by City of Ballarat. […] The list included the personal details of a number of eminent Ballarat personalities and those with sensitive professions, including lawyers, doctors, business owners and police…
Confidential data stolen from Tesla after staff failed to secure server with password?
Note: as Catalin Cimpanu points out on Twitter, “Neither RedLock nor Tesla confirmed that “confidential data” was stolen. Tesla said the opposite in their statement. The reporter is going out on a limb on this one.” Duncan Riley reports: Elon Musk may be able to send a Tesla Inc. vehicle into space, but apparently his…
Data breach again: Salary bill of Supplyco staff leaked on WhatsApp
Joji Simon reports: Kochi: Close on the heels of the data leak from Service and Payroll Repository of Kerala (SPARK), the database of over 5.5 lakh government employees and pensioners in the state, another serious security breach of employee database maintained by a state government department has been reported. The breach was detected in the Supplyco…
Missouri mental health department admits mailing error
AP reports: The Missouri Department of Mental Health is notifying 1,000 people that some personal information might have been mailed to an incorrect address. The department said in a statement Friday that the information released included only the participants’ names, not medical or financial information. Read more on FOX2.