Brett Kelman reports that College of the Desert has had a second breach this month, this one involving student financial information. The college says that less than 10 students were affected by what it describes as a “possible data security breach.” Approximately 1900 employees were affected by an earlier breach this month. COD officials on Thursday did…
Category: Exposure
Personal files from late Orlando attorney’s office thrown in dumpster
Shell Muniz reports: An Orlando woman is angry after finding out her private information was tossed into a dumpster without being shredded — and hers wasn’t the only information that got treated that way. The files appear to belong to clients of Frank Bartolomeo at The Baldwin Park Law Firm. The attorney passed away last…
Ca: Surrey school district accidentally emails out student information
Christopher Poon reports: The Surrey school district is apologizing to parents and students after the personal information of about 250 students was mistakenly sent out as part of a school’s online newsletter. According to district spokesman Doug Strachan, a staff member at a Surrey school was sending out a letter to parents from the…
CO: Summit School District corrects security breach that leaked student information
The Summit Daily reports: Last week Summit School District officials discovered a security issue that made some student and parent information available online. […] The information the parent found came from an internal student data file the district used for automated calls to parents about their children’s negative food account balances. The file contained the…
UK: Aspers (Milton Keynes) breach results in undertaking
The Information Commissioner’s Office announced that Aspers (gaming operator for Milton Keynes casino) has signed an undertaking after violating the Data Protection Act. The undertaking explains that an employee, trying to e-mail personnel data for a new office to central payroll, accidentally emailed the personal data of 219 employees to an external – and incorrect…
US Marshal CCs, rather than BCCs, those interested in anonymous Bitcoin auction
Megan Geuss reports: The US Marshals Service is in charge of auctioning off almost 30,000 bitcoins that the federal government seized from Silk Road servers last year, and it had planned to do so in an anonymous auction this month. But that anonymity was compromised on Wednesday when the US Marshals Service accidentally revealed the…