On February 15, officials at Chapman University were informed that a document that should have been secured was available to authorized logged in system users who were not authorized to see that document . The university immediately secured the document by correcting the access privileges, and on February 22, notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s…
Category: Exposure
MetLife fined and ordered to provide credit monitoring to consumers after breach
WREX follows up on a breach they exposed in January 2010: An insurance company faces a fine and other stipulations for improperly throwing away people’s private insurance documents in Loves Park.MetLife has been ordered to provide credit fraud protection for everyone affected by the mistake and has to pay a $75,000 fine to the State…
Univ. of South Carolina warns 31,000 that personal info was exposed on the Web
Noelle Phillips reports: USC has experienced computer security breach that has exposed 31,000 people’s private information, including social security numbers, on the internet. The security breach was discovered in January on a computer server at USC Sumter, but it potentially affected faculty, staff, retirees and students throughout the university system’s eight campuses. “Letters went out…
Kr: Customers’ Information of Five-Star Hotel Exposed on Google
As the issue of privacy continues to become an ever increasing cause of concern in this technological world the personal information of guests staying at a group of luxury hotels in Korea has been found on Google. According to media reports Friday, customers’ information at the Ambassador Hotel Group, including names, birth dates, e-mail addresses,…
6,000 Missouri State U. Students Have Social Security Numbers Exposed on Web
KTTS alerts us to a breach involving Missouri State University students. A statement on MSU’s web site explains: Missouri State University officials are notifying 6,030 College of Education students that their social security numbers may have been compromised as a result of an internal security breach. In October and November 2010, in preparation for an…
MO: Real Estate Records Found In Dumpster
Betsy Bruce reports: Private real estate records turned up in a condominium dumpster in Hazelwood Thursday. Three banker boxes full of files from the Prudential Patterson Realtors firm were tossed into a trash bin. A resident who retrieved some of the files passed them along to FOX Two News. Personal addresses, phone numbers and a…