Cassie Shaner reports: A list of names and Social Security numbers for about 1,450 veterans with upcoming appointments at the Clarksburg VA Medical Center was mistakenly left in a government vehicle for a few months, officials said Tuesday. They said there’s no reason to believe the information was compromised, however. […] Beiler said a female…
Category: Exposure
MI: Man turns documents with personal information over to police
Mary Conway reports that a Michigan man who found a file with with personal documents in a dumpster at the corner of Maybee Road and Gregory in Oakland County turned the documents over to the police. “It was vital information, like social security numbers, license numbers, dates of birth even bank account numbers” Wysocki said….
UK: 83,000 customer details leaked by Co-op
Joe McGrath reports: The Co-operative Group has issued a public apology after a data error led to the customer details of 83,000 people being published online. Customers of Co-operative Life Planning and Co-operative Wills & Funeral Planning were affected by the error at a third party support services provider which resulted in the customer details…
NY: Student Records Found Dumped in Trash Bins
Andrea Day reports that files found tossed in a dumpster behind a strip mall on Long Island were from the Huntington Learning Center in East Northport. The woman who found the files said she couldn’t believe what she found in the trash bins behind the store where she works. The files had ages, work numbers, and…
Cn: Bank details on the web
Jia Feishang reports: China’s biggest search engine, Baidu, removed files containing the personal details of thousands of locals from its document-sharing platform yesterday, following public outcry over the breach of privacy. But although those files were deleted, people’s personal information can easily be found on the Internet. Shanghai Daily has discovered similar documents online, including…
Killeen ISD investigating student records blowing across a field
Andy Ross of the Killeen Daily Herald had some additional information on the Killeen ISD data breach reported earlier this week: KISD spokeswoman Leslie Gilmore confirmed on Tuesday that documents containing Social Security numbers and other student information were found Sunday evening near Old FM 440 and Stan Schlueter Loop in Killeen. […] Gilmore said…