Danielle Dreilinger reports: State officials announced Friday that the Social Security numbers, names and birthdates of 210 students were left on at least two laptops sold at auction Oct. 11. Those laptops were surplus equipment from the Future Is Now charter group sold after the organization ended its program at John McDonogh High in New…
Category: Exposure
WI: Marquette University suffers potential data breach on grad school applications
Gitte Laasby reports: Marquette University has suffered a potential data breach because of a technical glitch that allowed anyone with Marquette login credentials access to personal information on people’s graduate school applications kept on an internal server. The accessible information includes Social Security numbers, dates of birth, addresses, test scores and financial information, Marquette University…
UK: Swale council blames human error for data protection breach
Hayley Robinson reports: Swale council has been forced to apologise and may face investigation after the email addresses of about 2,500 residents were sent out to the public. A blunder meant they were inadvertently shared on a message promoting an e-billing system. The emails were sent out in batches of 10, containing about 250 contact…
VA: Richmond school officials investigate security breach involving student files
Zachary Reid reports: Richmond school officials are conducting an intensive internal investigation of student records after a School Board member shared confidential information about at least 20 students with a vendor that provides mental health services. Tichi L. Pinkney Eppes, of the 9th District, publicly apologized a day after her colleagues were told about the…
Huge Data Leak at Largest U.S. Bond Insurer
Brian Krebs writes: On Monday, KrebsOnSecurity notified the Municipal Bond Insurance Association — the nation’s largest bond insurer — that a misconfiguration in a company Web server had exposed countless customer account numbers, balances and other sensitive data. Much of the information had been indexed by search engines, including a page listing administrative credentials that attackers could use to…
UK: Housing association publishes thousands of tenants’ private details in online data breach
Max Salisbury reports: A Midlands-based housing association has been slammed after it somehow managed to publish the private and intimate details of thousands of its tenants online. South Staffordshire Housing Association (SSHA) published residents’ names, telephone numbers, addresses, family affairs and health details on the ‘Contact Us’ page of its website. Though the private data…