Matthew Humphries writes about major fallout following the exposure of confidential files on the Internet: All is not well at the offices of Blizzard China. Last week a large data breach occurred which saw financial data, media packages, commercial budgets, global subscriber details, and worst of all–the road map for future game releases all taken….
Category: Exposure
FL: Company Dumps Files, Exposing Personal Information
KMax Systems said a new manager threw out a box of job applications in a Dumpster by mistake. The files contain personal information. A homeless man found the job applications in the trash. […] KMax sells Kirby vacuum cleaners door-to-door. Read more on ClickOrlando.com
AU: Telstra red-faced after email error
Lucy Battersby reports: Telstra has accidentally leaked personal details of 570 customers after an employee sent an email to customers waiting for products rather than the stores delivering the products. An attachment containing customer names, general location and email addresses was sent to store owners asking them to update the order status. However, the Telstra…
Jp: Police seize personal info on Internet subscribers after terrorism data leak
As a follow-up to a serious data breach in Japan: Tokyo police have seized personal information and Internet access records of subscribers from two Internet service providers (ISPs), suspecting that police documents on international terrorism possibly leaked online via their systems, officials said. The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) seized the information on suspicion of obstruction…
UK: Action taken after MPs personal details compromised
The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) has agreed to take action after MPs personal details were accidentally placed at risk on the MPs expenses database, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The expenses claims were accessible for a period of 21 hours, following IT maintenance work in July 2010 which inadvertently allowed those persons…
OK: Hundreds of personal documents found in dumpster
A Tulsa business finds hundreds of documents in its dumpster. […] The documents contained all sorts of personal information, dating as far back as 2004 and as early as 2009. Probst managed to save 96 of them before sanitation workers came by and emptied the dumpster. “Blank checks, social security cards, id’s, bank statements, telephone…