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Orange sanctioned by French regulator after customer data breach

Posted on August 26, 2014 by Dissent

Orange has received a public warning from the French privacy watchdog Cnil after personal details of more than a million of its customers were leaked on the internet. Orange notified Cnil of the problem in April, blaming a technical fault at one of its marketing suppliers. Almost 1.3 million customers were affected, with their name,…

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Oops. Data leak not fixed as Topeka school leaders thought

Posted on August 25, 2014 by Dissent

Last week, I posted a privacy breach involving student data in Topeka Unified School District 501 over on PogoWasRight. It seems I missed an update, but happily, @VERISDB caught it and tweeted a link. Celia Llopis-Jepsen reports: Confidential student data continued to be available this week to unauthorized people at Topeka Unified School District 501,…

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Comcast Data Breach Leaks Thousands of Unlisted Phone Numbers, Threatening Customers’ Privacy

Posted on August 25, 2014 by Dissent

Adi Kamdar  of EFF writes: The longer my information is out there, the worse the issue gets, yet still no action. I have paid for unpublishing my information for years as I testified in a murder trial. Now, my wife, children, and I are [a]ll in danger; and I have nowhere to turn. Four years…

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AU: Federal privacy authorities called in over Centrelink breach

Posted on August 18, 2014 by Dissent

Noel Towell reports: Federal privacy authorities have been called in after Centrelink left revealing personal and financial details of clients lying around at a suburban railway station last month. Documents containing details of 23 clients’ full financial disclosures, including bank account numbers and details of property holdings, superannuation and investments, were left by an official…

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Sensitive student records found in dumpster outside Denver middle school

Posted on August 12, 2014 by Dissent

Jon Bowman reports: DENVER — In Park Hill … the new Smiley Middle School Campus is getting ready for classes to begin, but amid all the cleaning up, someone threw out boxes of student records with all types of personal information, including birth certificates, which were supposed to be stored. When FOX31 Denver showed up…

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UK: Estate agent data breach leaves customers open to ID theft

Posted on August 11, 2014 by Dissent

From the Information Commissioner’s Office: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has taken action after a London estate agent continued to leave papers containing personal information on the street despite a previous warning. On 11 December 2013, the ICO was informed that an outlet owned by Thamesview Estate Agents was leaving papers containing personal information in…

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