Hannah Martin reports: Consumer action groups are warning companies to take better care of client information after a Hobart hotel breached the privacy of more than 600 guests. Quest Trinity apartments blamed a “glitch” in their email system for sending out promotional material that revealed the contact details of their guests. Recipients were not blind…
Category: Exposure
Real Life Computer Privacy Breach For Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs?
Mark Coupe writes: Ever since coming out of nowhere and wowing the world at E3, pretty much everyone has been talking about Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs. Looking and feeling truly next-gen both in its AI and astounding visuals many people think we are looking at a launch title for the next series of consoles. Meanwhile Ubisoft…
AU: RailCorp violated NSW privacy law by not properly wiping lost USB drives before auctioning them – report
Remember the news coverage of how RailCorp was auctioning off USB drives left on trains without properly wiping them first? There’s a follow-up to the story on Infosecurity-Magazine this week: The state-owned passenger rail service RailCorp did not comply with New South Wales’ (NSW) privacy law when it “cleansed” data from unclaimed USB keys that…
Update, NZ: ACC privacy breach payout offered
An update to a privacy breach previously noted on this blog: Compensation offered to victims of a mass privacy breach by ACC will be at the “lower end”, ACC Minister Judith Collins said. ACC has posted letters to about 250 people whose cases are with ACC’s sensitive claims unit – which holds details of victims…
NY: Head of youth program fired over discarded sensitive documents
News12 reports on an incident in the Bronx: The head of a summer youth program in West Farms is out of a job after sensitive and personal information was found dumped out on the sidewalk. The discarded files were left in plain sight, piled in a Dumpster across from the Phipps Community Development Center. The…
Kayak.com investigates after customer discovers security breach
Dylan C. Robertson reports: Kevin Hunt travels whenever he finds time off and a good deal. So when his credit statement listed Kayak.com, he went to the travel booking site to see which trip the charge was for. The site allows people to find reservation details by searching their last name and the last four…