MarkJ writes: Controversial solicitors firm ACS:Law UK (Andrew Crossley), which last week had all of its dirty email communication laundry leaked across the internet (here), is now facing more problems after Privacy International (PI) announced that it would take legal action against the firms breach of sensitive personal details. The emails were reportedly revealed on the evening of…
Category: Exposure
“Human error” exposed sellers’ names on Etsy.com
Due to an “internal human coding error,” online marketplace Etsy.com exposed over 1,900 sellers’ real names on their website on September 20 instead of their shops’ names. In a post on its website, Chad Dickerson explained: We had an issue in Treasury earlier today where the “full name” field that we gather at seller registration…
MI: Accounting firm client records dumped in trash
Piles of people’s personal information from a local accounting firm has been tossed into a garbage can for anyone to find. The documents were discovered in the trash outside the Comprehensive Accounting firm on 8 Mile and Farmington roads in Farmington Hills. [….] Local 4 found thousands of client files in the trash that included…
MO: Thousands Of Mortgage and Personal Documents Strewn Over Lawn
Andy Banker reports: Thousands of abandoned documents, full of people’s personal information, were in an O’Fallon, Missouri, driveway Tuesday, along with a mess that included a recliner, an old bedroom set, TV, and dinner table. There were stacks of mortgage documents with people’s social security numbers, bank accounts, addresses, and phone numbers, sitting right out…
Follow-up: Kinetic Concepts’ notification to employees
Earlier this month I linked to a media report about a breach at Kinetic Concepts involving an email attachment containing personal info on employees. A copy of their notification to affected employees is now available on the website of the New Hampshire Attorney General.
Saint Anselm College alumni mailing exposed SSN
Back in May, Saint Anselm College notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that a spring 2010 mailing of its alumni newsletter had inadvertently exposed SSN of 122 New Hampshire residents on the mailing labels. This month, Saint Anselm notified the office that it seemed that the exposure problem had occurred as early as its…