I read the following news story by Dan Wallach and thought, “Are you kidding me?!” The Texas Comptroller’s office has arranged for individuals affected by an inadvertent exposure of personal data to receive a 70 percent discount on one year of credit monitoring to alert them if their information is misused. On Monday, the comptroller’s office…
Category: Exposure
SSA exposed SSNs, names, birth dates for 36,000 people, IG says
From the are-you-absolutely-sure-you’re-not-dead dept. Alice Lipowicz reports: The Social Security Administration publicly made available the names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers and other sensitive personal information on more than 36,000 people from May 2007 to April 2010 despite being warned about the privacy risks, according to a report from SSA’s Office of the Inspector General….
Texas Workforce Commission Information Security Alert
The Texas Workforce Commission issued a security alert following the disclosure of a massive data breach by the Comptroller’s Office: The Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) is concerned about the data security breach at the Office of the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts where the personal information of approximately 2 million Unemployment Insurance (UI) claimants was…
TX: Parents Of 60 Local Students Advised Of Possible Security Breach
Eli Ross provides a small update to a breach reported last month when student records of some students at Ellison High School were found blowing across a field: The Killeen Independent School District said Tuesday that it sent home 58 letters to parents of students warning of a security breach involving personal information including Social…
Texas comptroller’s office data breach exposes 3.5 million teachers’ and employees’ Social Security numbers and other personal information
Kelley Shannon reports: Texas Comptroller Susan Combs revealed Monday that the personal information of 3.5 million people has been inadvertently disclosed by her agency, making Social Security numbers, dates of birth and other data accessible to the public. The information was available on a publicly accessible computer server and included data transferred by the Teacher…
UK: Sensitive council data put online by mistake
Once again, a breach involving what appears to be over-transparency in government: Devon County Council is currently examining dozens of documents which had been made available on its website to assess the amount of damage done. The authority took the action after the Echo made it aware that it had published financial details relating to…