Seth Augenstein reports: A local activist’s recent public records request resulted in some extra information — namely, some personal Social Security numbers, and some federal tax identification numbers. Jesse Wolosky, a well-known Sparta activist who recently lost a bid for a Township Council seat, put in a request for a list of vendors to the…
Category: Exposure
Commentary: Is WellPoint blaming others for breach?
Steve Ragan has a statement from WellPoint that he posted on Tech Herald. While the company doesn’t deny that the actual cause of the exposure was a faulty security update, from there, it reads as if they are pointing fingers everywhere but at themselves. WellPoint mentions the role of the plaintiff’s attorney(s): The reason that…
Ca: Confidential cemetery papers found dumped
Jenni Dunning reports: Residents are fuming after a cardboard box overflowing with personal information, including credit card numbers, was found outside a Hamilton cemetery yesterday. The discarded box [found “near a railway next to piles of broken tree branches and stinky garbage at the back of Hamilton Municipal Cemeteries’ headquarters on York Boulevard”], about the…
NY: Going hack to school
Rebecca Harshbarger andYoav Gonen report: It was a technical foul. Hackers accessed the personal information of more than 2,400 Brooklyn Tech HS students and posted it on the school’s Web site, The Post has learned. The startling security breach put students’ names, addresses and birth dates — and, in many cases, their Social Security numbers…
SC: Private Information Found In Greer Dumpster
WSPA in South Carolina reports that a consumer tipped them that a dumpster was filled with sensitive personal and financial information. The story doesn’t name the business, but the video coverage names it as Merrimack Mortgage:
WellPoint Security Breach Put At Risk Information For 470,000 Nationwide
The latest revelations on the Anthem/Wellpoint breach raise some questions for this blogger. Matthew Sturdevant reports that the recently disclosed Anthem breach may affect many more than the 230,000 recently reported: An online security breach put at risk the personal, financial and medical information of 470,000 WellPoint customers nationwide, including 5,600 in Connecticut, customers are…