Jamie Taylor reports: About 85 inmates at the Vilas County Jail on Jan. 14 inadvertently had their social security numbers and other personal information posted online for about four hours. According to Vilas County Sheriff Joe Fath, the information was posted when a new corrections employee posted the wrong computerized report. Read more on Lakeland…
Category: Exposure
Twitter: Fixing a recent password recovery issue
Oops. It looks like my beloved Twitter had a security issue. From a blog post yesterday: We recently learned about — and immediately fixed — a bug that affected our password recovery systems for about 24 hours last week. The bug had the potential to expose the email address and phone number associated with a…
IN: 40 people notified after tax documents found in dumpster
Following up on the station’s earlier report, Paris Lewbel reports: Nearly 40 people have been notified by the Indiana Attorney General’s Office after their tax documents were found in a dumpster. Many of the people were not Indiana residents. […] The Indiana Attorney General also sent a letter to the nearby tax preparer to find…
Hundreds Of Spotify Premium Accounts Exposed Online (Again)
Shelby Carpenter reports: The black-hat hacker world is at it again–this time, publishing hundreds of Spotify Premium user accounts online. The user info appeared in three different online data dumps on Pastebin starting on Monday. Each dump contained email addresses with their corresponding passwords for Spotify. For some accounts, home countries, account types (such as premium or…
Blogger Exposes Personal Data Protection Flaw on Macedonia’s Election Commission Website
Filip Stojanovski reports: Ensuring that the next elections are free and fair is crucial to the return of democracy and stability in Macedonia. A young female blogger contributed to this process by discovering a flaw related to the government’s voters’ registry web app. […] On the morning of February 10, [Kalina] Zografska published a blog post…
Ca: Fraction of those affected by breach identified
Joel Wittnebel has a follow-up on a breach involving the City of Oshawa: Despite extensive efforts, only four of the 18 individuals affected by a December 2015 privacy breach in the city’s printing services department have been identified. On Dec, 1 it was discovered that a series of pre-authorized tax payment (PAP) notices had been double-stuffed…