Seen on The Australian, but not on News Corp Australia’s web site: This afternoon News Corp Australia was made aware of a vulnerability in the security of our email newsletter database. Some personal information about people who subscribe to our email newsletters was potentially accessible from outside the company. The information does not include credit…
Category: Exposure
Kiwibank apologizes after privacy breach
Nicholas McBride of the Greymouth Star reports: Kiwibank has apologised to all customers affected by a privacy breach at the Greymouth branch. An envelope full of confidential documents was handed to a member of the public when they went into the Post Shop office last month. The individual took it home and opened it, unaware…
GA: Hundreds at risk for ID theft after info was taken from charity
Rachel Stockman reports: Melanie Miller, founded Suddenly Single Parents Inc., a non-profit that helps young parents, said she found all of the agency’s belongings gone after her property management company hired a mold remediation company to cleanup the office on Gresham Road. When she returned from the weekend clean up, the charity’s stuff, including furniture…
Company responsible for MPS social security mistake explains
Last week, John Cuoco reported that approximately 6,000 Milwaukee Public School District employees found their Social Security numbers exposed in plain view on mailings due to an error by a third party vendor providing prescription drug coverage for MPS Medicare D recipients. Yesterday, he updated his reporting to identify the vendor: The Milwaukee Public School District…
IRS Officials Sent Private Data Over Personal Email Accounts – Issa
CJ Ciaramella reports: Senior Internal Revenue Service officials—including one at the heart of the IRS “targeting” scandal—violated agency policies and possibly federal records laws by using private email to send confidential taxpayer information, the GOP-led House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform said in a letter. In a Sept. 30 letter to IRS Acting Commissioner Daniel Werfel…
IN: Telecom Company Being Investigated for Information Breach
An update on the TerraCom breach reported previously on this blog. Brandon Smith reports: The Attorney General’s office updated lawmakers Monday on a nearly five-month long investigation of telecommunications company TerraCom Incorporated. […] Tolliver says a lot of the information the state has obtained has come from the media outlet that first uncovered the breach…