ABC reports: National Australia Bank (NAB) has accidentally sent the account details belonging to 60,000 overseas customers to an incorrect email address. NAB wrote to all the account holders involved, telling them the emails included information such as their name, address, email, BSB and account numbers, but it did not include any passwords. Read more…
Category: Exposure
Ca: City of Greater Sudbury sorry for privacy breach
Sudbury Star reports: The City of Greater Sudbury has disciplined two employees and is apologizing for a sizeable breach of trust. The city has reported itself to the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario for two instances of breaches of privacy related to the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. The breaches…
T-Mobile’s Digits sign-up page temporarily pulled after some subscriber info was exposed
Jacob Siegal reports: On Wednesday afternoon, T-Mobile unveiled a new program called Digits, which will allow T-Mobile subscribers to use a single mobile phone number across multiple devices and use multiple phone numbers on a single device. Unfortunately, the launch of the exciting new Digits beta was quickly overshadowed by a major error on T-Mobile’s website that…
Joan Jett’s BlackHeart Records leaks thousands of files online
From MacKeeper Security Research Center: This week legendary rocker and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Member Joan Jett had an unfortunate reminder of how important cyber security and data protection is in today’s digital world. On Dec 1st the MacKeeper Security Research Center discovered Joan Jett’s BlackHeart Records leaking hundreds of gigabytes of data…
UK: Patient claims Musgrove Park Hospital breached her privacy by showing photos of her recovering foot without consent
Amy Cole reports: A woman has hit out at Musgrove Park Hospital after photos of her recovering foot were used in a training seminar without her consent. Read more about what happened on Somerset County Gazette. Some of the commenters on that site were not particularly sympathetic to her complaint.
Employee error exposed San Jose Evergreen Community College District student info
The San Jose Evergreen Community College District (SJECCD) is notifying some of their students of a breach that occurred due to an employee error. On November 7, the district learned that an SJECCD employee had inadvertently uploaded a file containing the personal information of certain SJECCD students to a publicly accessible folder on the SJECCD website. The file…