As reported by the Asahi Shimbun: Officers with the Gifu Prefectural Police leaked personal information to a Chubu Electric Power Co. subsidiary about residents and others opposed to a plan to construct wind turbines in their neighborhood. Their actions could constitute a violation of the Local Public Service Law that imposes confidentiality obligations on local…
Category: Exposure
ZA: How to wreck customer relations
Wendy Knowler reports: As corporate mess-ups go, it was pretty big. A “pre-legal credit controller” employed by cellphone service provider Altech Autopage sent an e-mail to 45 of its subscribers earlier this month, many of them former subscribers, telling them to pay up or face the consequences. “We refer to your Altech Autopage account which…
OK: Payne County treasurer’s office tosses sensitive documents in dumpster
Paige Hill reports that the Payne County assessor’s office noticed a dumpster full of documents and files with personal information including social security numbers – but before anything could be done, a dump truck hauled all the papers away. County Assessor James Cowan says he noticed documents that date from the 1980′s to 2008. Read more on…
Massage school data breach may rub alumni the wrong way
Six hundred and eighty-three Maryland residents who are alumni of the Baltimore School of Massage (BSOM) and Baltimore School of Massage’s Steiner Institute of Esthetics are being offered three years of free credit monitoring, identity protection, and identity theft restoration services following on email error that exposed their information. On June 17, an employee accidentally…
AU: University of Newcastle apologizes to students for privacy breach
From ABC in Australia: The University of Newcastle has apologised to several thousand students after personal information was posted online. The University says the student administration information inadvertently became available in an ‘online test environment’, but access was quickly closed down when it was notified about the incident two weeks ago. […] “So we’ve written…
Billing information of guests at Radisson Hotel Fisherman’s Wharf accidentally sent to a hotel guest
So it seems an employee of Radisson Hotel Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco accidentally sent an email to a hotel guest that had an attached spreadsheet with some guests’ billing information that included their company names, credit card numbers and expiration dates, mailing and email addresses, and telephone numbers. The recipient contacted the hotel the same day (June 10)…