John Thompson reports: The Elizabethton City School System accidentally released personal information on all the system’s students on Tuesday. Superintendent Ed Alexander said the information was not further distributed. Alexander said the information release was an internal mistake and there was no hacking. “An official inadvertently hit the wrong button,” Alexander said. “All the report…
Category: Exposure
UIC warns of possible data breach; business, accounting students at risk
Some former University of Illinois Chicago students were warned last week of a breach that left personal information, including Social Security numbers, publicly accessible. A website security breach made two College of Business Administration documents from the 2002 spring semester accessible — a roster from a Special Topics in Accounting course and an advising list…
TX: Apartment complex residents private files found in dumpster
Damall Keith reports: It was thrown away like trash, folders full of personal information. What do you think? Is your social security number, salary and employment information trash? One company now has some explaining to do after private files were found in a dumpster. ”Copies of drivers license, copies of social security cards, banking information,”…
Update: Vodafone alerts privacy watchdog
Tom Pullar-Strecker and Siobhan Downes report: Vodafone says it has informed the Privacy Commissioner about a data breach identified by a customer yesterday. The customer said he had been able to access details of other people’s Vodafone’s accounts, including personal information, their internet usage and credit-card details by using a default password. Vodafone spokeswoman Emma Carter…
MO: Park Hill data security breach affects thousands
Jamie Oberg reports: The Park Hill School District sent out letters this week to 10,210 current and former district employees and students about a potential data security breach. The district said Tuesday that they believe the breach occurred sometime between February and April. School officials learned of the incident on April 1 after a resident…
Blue Shield discloses 18,000 doctors’ Social Security numbers
Martyn Williams reports: The Social Security numbers of roughly 18,000 California physicians and health-care providers were inadvertently made public after a slip-up at health insurance provider Blue Shield of California, the organization said Monday. The numbers were included in monthly filings on medical providers that Blue Shield is required to make to the state’s Department…