Rebecca Horan reports: The Data Protection Commissioner is investigating a data security breach made by Irish mortgage campaigners New Beginning. According to The Mail on Sunday, 1,500 homeowners had their financial details sold to a €2bn overseas investment fund that aims to buy up 1,500 distressed homes here. The Malta based fund Arizun reportedly used the…
Category: Exposure
Ca: Privacy breach at city hall
Andrew Peplowski reports: Montreal police say officers had good intentions when they required city hall visitors to provide their names, dates-of-birth and driver’s license numbers on Tuesday evening. But they never should have left the sheets of paper, with all that information, behind at the end of the evening. A reporter from the Journal de…
Anonymous dumps KKK leader’s personal info online in ongoing Ferguson dispute
Travis Gettys reports: The online hacker collective Anonymous dumped a trove of personal information online belonging to alleged members of the Ku Klux Klan. The “hacktivist” group claims to have taken control this week of the @KuKluxKlanUSA Twitter account in an ongoing dispute between the two groups over Wilson’s fatal shooting of an unarmed black teen and the resulting…
Canada Revenue Agency privacy breach leaks prominent Canadians’ tax details
Dean Beeby reports: Detailed tax information about the private lives of hundreds of Canadians — many of them rich and famous — was sent to CBC News by Canada’s tax agency in an apparent major privacy breach. The highly confidential details, including home addresses of taxpayers and the value of tax credits they were granted,…
Data leak at Blackberry?
Stumbled across this thread from today. Am inserting what the acronyms means for the benefit of non-Blackberry users: Thread: Security Breach in Myaccount “I have 12 other companies listed under my portal. So much for security…. When I log in and go to enterprise license management, I see a list of other numbers in addition…
VA: Security breach reveals personal data on Prince George’s school employees
Ovetta Wiggins reports: The Prince George’s County Public School System notified employees on Friday evening of a possible security breach involving employees’ personal data. […] Davis said a report that contained employees’ social security numbers, birth dates and employee identification numbers was emailed outside of the school system. A spokeswoman for the system said the…