Tessa Norman reports: A Scottish Widows customer claims the provider has cost him £50,000 after it breached the Data Protection Act by sending details of his pension to his ex-wife. The provider has offered the customer, who cannot be named for legal reasons, £500 in compensation for sending the information to an unauthorised address. But…
Category: Exposure
VT: DCF email inadvertently shares foster parents’ personal info
Email errors are still not a thing of the past. Shelby Cashman reports: A registered Department for Children and Families foster parent who wants to remain anonymous says she feels violated. Her personal information, including Social Security number, was inadvertently emailed to 34 other foster parents by the Newport family services division of DCF. She is not…
School bus smartcard security breach
Joanne Clague reports: Transport authorities have admitted that a parent was able to view another customer’s information when they purchased a Go School card online. The smartcards must be used by children travelling to school from January 7. It costs 25p per journey but children who are entitled to free school meals will not have to pay….
Agency Allowed Google To Index Info About Serbian Citizens
InSerbia reports: BELGRADE – Agency for Privatization published, unauthorized, information about 5,190,396 citizens of Serbia, on its website with more than four thousand financial documents, Share foundation confirmed today. The text database with information (in total about 19 GB of content) was publicly available on the official website of the Agency for Privatization, Share foundation…
Sony says news outlets should stop using hacked documents
Bloomberg reports: Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. lawyers have sent a letter asking news organizations to stop writing articles based on stolen documents released by hackers seeking to interrupt the release of the comedy “The Interview.” The letter, dated Sunday, was sent by attorney David Boies to news organizations including Bloomberg and The New York Times….
Rex Mundi reportedly leaking employee info
Belsec Blog has more details, but it looks like Tobasco.be and Z-Staffing.org are having their data leaked because they didn’t meet Rex Mundi’s demands. The data leak reportedly does not include national registry numbers, but the hackers are believed to be in possession of bank account numbers that have not (yet?) been leaked. Belsec Blog…