Telecompaper reports: Orange Romania was fined with RON 10,000 by data protection authorities for failing to comply with the obligations concerning the application of security measures and keeping the confidentiality of end-users’ personal phone data, according to local paper Hotnews.ro. The operator was sanctioned after a customer sent a complaint saying that his replacement phone…
Category: Exposure
UK: Sheffield Council lost document of children’s names – authority’s data breaches exposed
Alex Evans reports: Confidential data has been lost, misplaced or leaked by Sheffield Council 22 times since February 2012, The Star can reveal today. The information includes eight letters sent to the wrong address and a document which contained children’s names going missing. In one breach, a spreadsheet naming 1,729 people who received payments from…
AU: Telstra ordered to pay AU$18K over privacy breach
Leon Spencer reports: The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has ordered Telstra to pay AU$18,000 and apologise to a judge after it failed to tell him it had published his details in the White Pages directory. According to the OAIC, the unnamed judge — identified only as “DK” — contacted Telstra to have…
FTC Says Debt Broker Disclosed Too Much
Dan McCue reports: Debt broker Bayview Solutions LLC posted the debt portfolios of 28,000 consumers online, including their bank account numbers and other identifying information, the Federal Trade Commission claims in a federal lawsuit. Bayview Solutions was established in 2008 and does business as Bayview Risk Management Capital and Bayview Commercial Recovery. It’s primary business…
TX: Security Breach At Euless Mattress Firm
Bud Gillett reports: A CBS 11 News viewer tipped us off to a breach of security at a local business that can put customers’ private financial information at risk. The viewer told CBS 11 News he took the photos at the dumpster behind a Mattress Firm store at the southwest corner of Glade Road and…
SD: Meade School District dealing with information breach
Deb Holland reports: Meade School District staff hope they have corrected an internal computer error that made hundreds and maybe thousands of Social Security numbers of former students available online last week. Meade Superintendent Don Kirkegaard said Saturday the computer breach came to his attention late Thursday. “Somehow, access to our transcript server was compromised,”…