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Georgia Department of Driver Services public computers expose personal information

Posted on November 18, 2013 by Dissent

Ross McLaughlin reports: 11Alive’s Center for Investigative Action went undercover to expose how a state agency that you trust to protect your personal information is putting people at risk for identity theft. Your private information, available for anyone to see — tax returns, Social Security numbers, you name it. It may not have been intentional,…

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MI: Tax preparer leaves clients’ tax records behind in foreclosed home, but so did Treasury agents sent in to clean it out

Posted on November 13, 2013 by Dissent

Okay, this is bad. Ken Kolker reports: Federal agents raided a tax preparer’s former home and seized abandoned documents from decades of returns, including names, addresses and Social Security numbers — but they didn’t get it all, Target 8 discovered on Wednesday. Target 8 found thousands of pages of tax documents in a burn barrel…

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IE: Data breach on driver licence website investigated

Posted on November 12, 2013 by Dissent

Over on Twitter, Brian Honan just noted that two infosec stories led the evening news in Ireland tonight. One of them surely must be the Loyaltybuild/Supervalu breach, reported previously on this blog. I suspect this is the other one: The Road Safety Authority has confirmed that a data breach has occurred on the website for…

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IN: Jeffersonville reports ‘serious’ breach of personal data that has been recurring since…. 2001!

Posted on November 11, 2013 by Dissent

Charlie White reports: Jeffersonville is notifying city vendors and officials of a recurring “serious” data breach in which their names and addresses — and some Social Security numbers — were mistakenly e-mailed to city employees. “Because this is a serious incident, we strongly encourage you to take preventative measures now to help prevent and detect…

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JP: University private info left open to public access

Posted on November 8, 2013 by Dissent

Some Japanese universities found out the hard way about the risks of networked multifunction printers: Personal information on students and other university members, which is read by and stored in all-in-one machines at the University of Tokyo and two other universities, was left accessible to the public via the Internet, it has been learned. The…

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Adobe breach even bigger than we knew

Posted on November 8, 2013 by Dissent

Yes, the Adobe breach is back in the news as some have discovered that a data dump posted online contains the email addresses, encrypted passwords and password hints stored in clear text from 152 million Adobe user accounts.  Embarrassingly, one report notes that 1.9 million Adobe users used “123456” as their password.

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