Andrew Glover reports: Widespread personal data loss by North East councils has put thousands of people at risk of identity fraud. Lost laptops, missing memory sticks and bundles of post sent to wrong addresses have put delicate private details in the wrong hands. A Freedom of Information Act request revealed a catalogue of potentially dangerous…
Category: Exposure
Commentary: ACC caught out in another privacy breach
It just goes from bad to worse at ACC (the Accident Compensation Corporation), it seems. I had previously noted reports of a serious breach involving thousands of individuals’ claims. Since the initial reports, more details have emerged that have made waves, but this newest report will have some just wanting to shut ACC down altogether….
Norwegian government portal compromises users’ personal information
Mikael Ricknäs reports: Norway’s Altinn portal had to be closed after users got access to data belonging to two people, and on Thursday the site remained down. The Altinn portal is used by Norwegians to access their tax returns, among other documents. The portal is also used by 455,000 companies, which can view VAT (value…
MI: Wayne County sends out email blast containing some 1300 names and social security numbers
Michael Rosenfield reports on yet another e-mail attachment error (there seems to have been a bunch of them recently): The personal information of some 1300 Wayne County employees is compromised after an email mistake by the county’s Department of Personnel/Human Resources. A spreadsheet containing the data was mistakenly attached to an email about health insurance….
Update: Computer seized over Belfast City Hall breach (updated)
Give ’em back their data – that you didn’t ask for but they sent you anyway – or they’ll seize it from you? A computer has been seized from a woman who received personal details of every Belfast city councillor in a major security breach, it has been revealed. Heather M Brown surrendered the computer…
Hacker, suspected of 6 million user CSDN info leak, detained
Zhao Wen of The Shanghai Daily reports that a suspect has been detained in the CSDN breach that made headlines in December: The suspect surnamed Zeng was held in Wenzhou, eastern Zhejiang Province on February 4 after Beijing police opened an investigation into the case on December 22, the paper said. The leak, considered the…