Cross-posted from phiprivacy.net: On April 5, Affinity Health Plan issued a press release concerning a “potential security breach” of customer, provider, and staff personal information. According to the release, Affinity was informed on March 17 that an office copier leased previously by it and since returned to the leasing company might contain personal information on…
Category: Exposure
Dumpster is no place for tax info…and yet
Tax season may be over but the headaches could just be starting for dozens of San Antonio residents whose personal info was discovered in a dumpster. KENS 5 discovered dozens of personal documents on the city’s North side. The information was discovered in a local dumpster, located outside a Rapid Return Tax business on the…
Student data found exposed
A file containing sensitive student information was found by an Olympic College student unsecured on the OC intranet recently, but according to the Information Technology Department the problem has been fixed. Tom Jacobs, customer service manager for IT, said the file was secured “within minutes of finding the problem.” Jon Bowers, student body president, said…
Police send Reg hack CRB check database
If you’re going to have a data gaffe, try to avoid having a reporter be the recipient…. Chris Williams of The Register reports: Police face accusations of incompetence after accidentally emailing a file detailing the results of thousands of criminal records checks to a Register journalist. The author of the email at Gwent Police is…
95 new breaches in 2010 that didn’t make the news
The good folks over at the Identity Theft Resource Center recently posted a very gracious thank-you to me and this site for helping track data breaches. I suspect that they’ll be pulling their hair out this weekend, though. 🙂 In addition to the 100 previously unreported breaches from 2009 that I posted here today, here…
100 more breaches you probably never knew about in 2009
As noted here and elsewhere, the number of breaches reported in the media and other sources declined in 2009 relative to 2008, but newly obtained data suggests that once again, there was much that we did not know. During the period September 1 – December 31, 2009, 141 breach reports were received by the…