HSBC Finance Corporation has begun notifying an undisclosed number of consumers whose mortgage account information was inadvertently exposed on the Internet. The firm believes the exposure began sometime towards the end of 2014 and continued until March 27, 2015, when they learned of the breach. The breach affected customers of the firm’s subsidiaries, including Beneficial Financial I, Inc.,…
Category: Exposure
Debt Brokers Settle FTC Charges They Exposed Consumers’ Information Online
Two debt brokers have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they exposed highly sensitive information about tens of thousands of consumers while trying to sell portfolios of consumer debt on a public website. The agreements with the FTC require the defendants to abide by strict new requirements to protect consumers’ sensitive information. In…
Personal information of 50 South Korean nuclear experts leaked online
The personal information of more than 50 researchers at the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute were leaked online. The information, which includes their names and residential registration numbers, had been contained in research reports that were submitted to the IAEA between 1994 and 2012. An official at KAERI said, “We have monitored five cases of personal information leaks…
MA: Tewksbury School Committee member resigns over data breach
Remember that horrific breach by Tewksbury Public Schools that I recently noted? The Town Crier now reports that Tewksbury School Committee member Lisa Puccia has resigned from her seat, “citing the recent data breach as a factor in her decision.” Jayne W. Miller quotes from Puccia’s resignation letter: “In light of the recent breach by the school district regarding the Out…
CA: Hundreds Of Dental Records Found In Vacant Building
Christine O’Donnell reports that hundreds of dental records with patients’ addresses, insurance information, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and drivers license numbers were found in what appears to be a vacant building in Orange. Of concern, the building has broken windows and homeless people have been observed going in and out of it for a while…
OpIsrael: Anonymous Hacks Israeli Arms Importer Website, Leaks Thousands of Login Data
Waqas writes: Online hacktivist Anonymous has breached into an Israeli gun shop website (lhbltd.com) and leaked login credentials plus personal details of its local and international customers, including some government officers. The leaked data files have been divided and pasted in three different parts on Pastie sites for #OpIsrael. After analyzing the data we found out that data…