Here’s another case where records were left behind after a business was abandoned. James Jackson reports from Florida: Hillsborough County Code Enforcement officials are keeping a close eye on an old Bay area car dealership, after they say someone broke in and ransacked the place. They say vandals broke windows and doors, sprayed gang graffiti…
Category: Exposure
PA: Security breach exposes student data
Jason A. Kahl reports: The personal information of all students in the Fleetwood School District was stolen and posted online, district officials and Fleetwood police said Wednesday. The security breach was discovered by parents of students in the district who notified school officials Tuesday. The school contacted borough police and the website, Wikispaces, where it…
Bethpage Federal Credit Union details data breach
Human error strikes again. Claude Solnik reports: Bethpage Federal Credit Union on Tuesday said personal information of 86,000 consumer VISA debit card accounts had been exposed on the Internet. The company said an employee on May 3 posted data on a file transfer protocol site that the employee believed to be secure. But Bethpage Federal later…
FTC Charges EPN and Franklin’s Budget Car Sales Exposed Sensitive Information on Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing Networks, Putting Thousands of Consumers at Risk
The FTC has charged two businesses [complaint 1 | complaint 2] with illegally exposing the sensitive personal information of thousands of consumers by allowing peer to peer file-sharing software to be installed on their corporate computer systems. Settlements with the debt collection business and auto dealer will bar misrepresentations about their privacy, security, confidentiality, and integrity of…
DocuSign user information found through Google search (updated)
Oops. AGBeat reports: As the world’s largest electronic signature platform, DocuSign says that they have over 6 million unique signers processing millions of transactions per year and that they are “trusted by more people, more companies, more times than any other electronic signature provider in the world.” In just one search query in particular, we uncovered 4,450…
AU: Privacy Commissioner finds Act breached by super fund
ABC (AU) reports an update on a situation previously mentioned on this blog where simple url manipulation exposed information: A superannuation company that allowed the private details of its customers to be leaked online has been found to have breached the Privacy Act. In September last year, a flaw was discovered in First State Super’s computer systems,…