From the Information Commissioner’s Office: The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) and the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) – its parent organisation – have taken action after the discovery of a security flaw on CEOP’S website, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. On 6 April, the ICO received a complaint from an…
Category: Exposure
Credit Union MasterCard “glitch” reveals personal information
David Giles reports: It was not the type of password reset Patty Oglivie-Evans was expecting when she reset her Credit Union MasterCard password Wednesday morning. Oglivie-Evans was having trouble logging into her account and when she decided to reset her password, she ended up seeing another persons’ account history. […] That information included yearly salary,…
UK: Security helpline gets 174 calls from worried reservists
Another data breach that has the potential to put people in physical jeopardy: More than 170 former police officers have contacted an emergency help service set up after an administrative error potentially compromised their security, the Assembly has been told. Some of those ex-members of the RUC’s [Royal Ulster Constabulary] Part-Time Reserve may be considered…
Two years later, Texas parent who reported a breach gets prosecutors off his back and his laptop returned
A Texas parent who reported a school district security breach involving sensitive student records spent the next two years facing federal charges and trying to get his laptop back Back in August 2009, DataBreaches.net reported that a parent had his work and personal computers seized by the FBI after he reported a security breach to his…
OR: Security lapse exposes 62 ODOT employees’ personal information
Peter Wong reports: A breach in computer data security exposed personal information, including names and Social Security numbers, of 62 current and former employees and others working with environmental programs of the Oregon Department of Transportation. The agency announced the breach this morning. The breach was called to the agency’s attention two weeks ago by…
UK: Walsall residents’ details dumped in skip
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: Walsall Council breached the Data Protection Act by accidentally dumping hundreds of local residents’ postal vote statements in a skip, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The statements – which were disposed of in March 2011 by an external contractor on the council’s behalf – included people’s names, addresses,…