Lou Whitmire reports: The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections mistakenly released the Social Security numbers of more than 2,000 inmates at the Chillicothe Correctional Institution to a convicted identity thief from Mansfield as part of a public records request. Read more on Mansfield News Journal.
Category: Exposure
RI: DHS glitch results in 1095-B tax forms being sent to wrong parties
Katie Davis reports: A new glitch in the computer system at Rhode Island’s Department of Human Services resulted in more than 1,000 people receiving tax forms with the wrong information, putting their personal information at risk, state officials said Monday. The system, known as UHIP, has been plagued by problems since its launch in September…
Sunnyside Unified School District email gaffe exposed employees’ info
Barbara Grijalva and Maria Hechanova report: A pretty big mistake had Tucson’s second largest school district scrambling to make sure its employees won’t be hurt. Personal employee information was accidentally emailed to every Sunnyside Unified School District employee. That’s more than 2,000 people. According to the district’s IT department, at least 559 employees opened that email….
Greater Essex County District School Board investigating exposure of staff information on internal network
Maureen Revait reports: BlackburnNews.com has learned personal information of staff members at the Greater Essex County District School Board has been accessed in a possible data breach. An email that was sent out to staff was sent to BlackburnNews.com anonymously. It says information such as the names, dates of birth, social security number and direct deposit…
Solarwinds sends customers each others’ complete client lists
Alexander J. Martin reports: Software company Solarwinds, which sells IT management tools, has infuriated customers after a faulty alert exposed customers’ entire client lists to their competitors. An unspecified issue affecting the Texas-based business’ RemoteManagement tool, which it gained after acquiring Dundee-based LogicNow, led to a mass leaking of business data last Friday morning. Read…
Spammers expose their entire operation through bad backups
Sometimes you just have to grin when the bad guys screw up, misconfigure their backup, and expose their entire operation to the world. This is one of those times. Chris Vickery of the MacKeeper Security Research team and Steve Ragan of Salted Hash have the mega leak of the year. Steve writes: This is the story…