Aime Chanthadavong reports: Identification card solutions provider, Multicard, has been found to have leaked the personal information of approximately 9,000 maritime security identity card (MSIC) applicants online. The Office of the Australian Information Commission (OAIC) found that Multicard stored personal information on a publicly accessible web server without appropriate security controls to prevent unauthorised access….
Category: Exposure
California man receives faxes intended for Michigan credit union containing social security numbers
Jeff Vaughn reports: Richard Woo is in the import/export business. In the past, he used an email account to verify auto parts delivered to Los Angeles– where he lives– from China. The electronic fax number hasn’t been used in months, until recently when Woo says he started receiving applications for loans meant for a Michigan…
Almost 10,000 potentially affected by Snelling Staffing breach
More information is now available on the Snelling Staffing breach that had me confused. There’s still no explanation as to why a former employee had employee information on their home computer where it might have remained undetected if it were not for the databreach, but we now know that 9,757 individuals were potentially affected by…
Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council signs undertaking after case file left at client’s home
An undertaking to comply with the seventh data protection principle has been signed (pdf) by Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council. This follows an investigation into a social worker leaving a case file containing sensitive personal data at a client’s home. According to the undertaking, the Information Commissioner’s Office was informed of the breach in March 2013. After…
Former JHU grad students’ personal data exposed online
Pamela reports: More than 2,000 Social Security numbers of former Johns Hopkins University graduate students were exposed to potential hackers, the university confirmed Saturday. Hopkins officials discovered on March 19 that the names and Social Security numbers of 2,166 former students were stored on a server that was accessible to the Internet, said Dennis O’Shea, a university…
MI: More than 10,000 student names, internal ID numbers accessible in data breach by GVSU vendor
Brian McVicar reports: Grand Valley State University says student social security numbers were not accessible last week when a university vendor accidentally posted online a list of names, addresses and internal id numbers of more than 10,000 students. The university discovered on Saturday, April 19, that the information was accessible on the website of Kent…