Facing mounting criticism of her handling of her office’s massive data breach, Texas Comptroller Susan Combs has apologized for the security lapse that exposed personal information on 3.5 million citizens and has agreed to pay for identity restoration services out of her campaign fund. Read more on InfoSecurity. Okay, her campaign fund isn’t exactly the…
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Texas state employees sue Comptroller over recent security breach
Terry Baynes reports: A public school teacher sued the Texas Comptroller’s Office on behalf of 3.5 million current and former state employees after the comptroller posted the employees’ private information on its public website. The class-action lawsuit was filed in Houston federal court on Friday. It accuses the state agency of inflicting financial and emotional…
Ie: TCD reports data breach
Another Irish college is reporting a data breach: A file containing the names of students and staff of Trinity College Dublin, along with their addresses, ID numbers and email addresses, was “inadvertently” made accessible on a local network, the college said. TCD said today it had reported the incident to the Data Protection Commissioner. The…
TX: Combs: More help on way for those affected by data breach
Texas Comptroller Susan Combs today said her office is taking additional steps to assist the 3.5 million Texans whose personal information — including names and Social Security numbers — was publicly accessible for more than a year because of a data security lapse by the comptroller’s office. Among those steps: Beginning Friday, a year of…
Dealer-FX warns customers about alleged Xtime vulnerability that could potentially expose customer data
The following email was forwarded to DataBreaches.net by the recipient: From: Privacy Officer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 10:57 AM To: Privacy Officer Subject: URGENT SECURITY CONCERN Importance: High Dear Customer, We are writing to warn you of our recent discovery of a serious security defect in one of our competitor’s systems. The defect,…
Yankees Accidentally Leak Personal Info Of 20,000 Season Ticket Holders
Barry Petchesky writes: The New York Yankees accidentally distributed a file containing information on more than 20,000 season ticket accounts. The spreadsheet contains account numbers, names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses, and was mistakenly sent to thousands of current clients. Precisely 21,466 season ticket plans are listed in the document, representing all of the…