Ben Grubb reports: Beware when shopping online this holiday season as at least one eBay merchant has been found to have exposed the personal information of hundreds of Australians on the internet. Detailed information about a particular eBay seller’s customer transactions – including their phone numbers, postal addresses, email addresses and what a customer purchased…
Category: Exposure
Update: Big Pond plugs data leak
Stephen Cauchi and Georgia Wilkins report: Telstra has scrambled to reconnect its BigPond internet services after a privacy breach that leaked personal customer information shut down its system for 24 hours. Up to 1 million BigPond users could not use email and other online services while the problem was being fixed. About 60,000 passwords were…
Telstra internal website made public, releasing account details of up to one million customers
Michelle Ainsworth reports: Account details of up to one million Telstra customers have possibly been breached after an internal website was made public. The website listed Telstra customers on bundle plans and included their names, plan types, contact they had had with Telstra customer service and in some instances their account passwords, the Herald Sun…
UK: Probe launched as confidential files appear on Camden Council’s website
The Town Hall is facing a probe by the country’s data protection watchdog after a New Journal investigation found files containing strictly confidential personal information were freely accessible on Camden Council’s website. We alerted the Town Hall to the dangers of publishing uncensored licensing applications on Monday after opening and downloading dozens of the forms….
College fails to properly dispose of documents – Privacy breach at Red River
Garth Hilderman reports: More than 1,000 pages of campus crime reports, complete with the names, addresses and even photos of some victims, were dumped in a recycling bin at Red River College, a privacy breach the college calls “very serious.” The college has referred the matter to the provincial Ombdusman office to determine the severity…
Tennessee mailing error results in employees canceling insurance and scrambling to monitor their credit
AP reports: The state of Tennessee is offering credit protection to nearly 2,000 employees who canceled their health or dental insurance after officials mailed out their personal information in October. Each mailing included a certificate containing the information of the recipient and three other letters aimed at other members of the plan. State officials say…