Max Massey of KOLN reports that the former owner of Four Star Drug in Lincoln said he had shredded, or transferred all of the important documents once his store went out of business. Sometimes a picture does speak 1,000 words. Look at this stack of papers with social security numbers, medical history, prescriptions, and even papers labeled confidential….
Category: Exposure
Fired employee sues SF State for $1 million after alleged hack
Golden Gate Express reports on a lawsuit stemming from a breach you may not have heard about: A former SF State information security officer claimed in a lawsuit that she was fired in a University attempt to sweep “under the rug” a 2014 hack involving a significant student records breach including financial records and password reset…
Vietnamese hotel leaves customers’ credit card data exposed online
From the MacKeeper Security Research Center, another misconfigured database leaking data. This time, it’s the Silverland Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam with thousands of unencrypted credit cards. According to their report, the total number of entries reached 6377 items (credit cards details in plain text). And this should not inspire confidence in potential hotel…
An unprotected database containing personal customer data of thousands of off-grid electricity customers was accessible for months.
Zack Whittaker reports: Thousands of remote villagers in Guatemala and South Africa are living off the grid, but their personal information isn’t. Chris Vickery, lead security researcher of the MacKeeper security research team, discovered an unprotected database with no password over two months ago. Anyone who knew the database was there could access more than…
More than 1500 BNZ customer’s confidential information compromised in data glitch
Emily van Velthooven reports: A Waikato woman, who chose to remain anonymous, contacted ONE News claiming she had received an email from BNZ disclosing bank information for a local business. She says she received an email on Tuesday morning listing the account details of a large business. “It had the date, bank account names, balances,…
Ca: Calgary apologizes for privacy breach of Workers’ Compensation Board files
CBC News reports: Registered letters are being sent to 3,716 victims of a privacy breach after WCB claim information was released due to “human error,” say city officials. In a release issued late Wednesday afternoon, Donald von Hollen, acting chief security officer for the city’s corporate security, said “numbers, names, incident dates, details regarding the nature…