Kevin Lizarazo reports: A file containing 61,001 names, including NetIDs and SBU IDs, was leaked on the Internet on Dec. 14., prompting the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) to investigate the incident. Richard W. Reeder, DoIT’s Chief Information Officer, called the disclosure “very irresponsible.” A user posted the file on sbuchat.com, a website described on…
Category: Exposure
UK: Oxford Aunts confidential client and employee data dropped in street
The personal details of more than 140 vulnerable pensioners were found on an unencrypted data stick dropped in Oxford city centre. […] The memory stick contained details, including names, addresses and telephone numbers of all the clients of Cornmarket Street-based Oxford Aunts, which provides private nursing care to dozens of elderly and infirm clients across…
Personal info on drug informants, suspects, others exposed in Colo.
Kathleen Hickey provides a few more details on the Mesa County, Colorado breach (previously mentioned on this blog) that exposed personal information on informants and others: Potentially more than 200,000 files from the Mesa County Sheriff’s Office of Colorado, including sensitive data such as names, Social Security numbers and contact information on drug informants, employees,…
VA: Portsmouth tax service dumps unshredded tax returns in dumpster
Once again, tax returns are found unshredded in a dumpster. This time, WTKR reports that the tax records were prepared by Liberty Tax Service in Portsmouth, Virginia. Martin Thomas, Jr. with the Decker Law Firm says it’s a class 2 misdemeanor under state law which reads, “They may not dispose of, for the purpose of…
Ca: Veteran ‘shocked’ after receiving medical records of other military members
Alison Auld of The Canadian Press reports: The Department of Defence has launched an investigation after a former member of the Canadian Forces found sensitive health and personal information about other military personnel in his medical file. Wayne Finn said he was stunned to discover everything from other service members’ social insurance numbers, blood test…
TX: Tax returns and loan documents found unshredded in dumpster
Andy Liscano reports: Someone mailed an envelope anonymously to Action Ten’s Andy Liscano. It didn’t have a return address on it. But inside were tax returns and loan documents for 7 Corpus Christi residents. Sensitive personal information that, in the wrong hands, could potentially be disastrous for these people. One of them is a Corpus…