Or Kashti reports: Sensitive personal information about students, including psychological diagnoses and school evaluations, is being stored at an unsupervised location in a corridor of an Education Ministry building in Jerusalem. Any visitor who gets through the building’s initial security inspection, if he were so inclined, could look through the documents and even take them….
Category: Exposure
(follow-up) Leak of Atlanta firefighter data due to filesharing
Some additional information on a leak involving personal information on some Atlanta firefighters suggests that the files wound up on the Internet due to a filesharing program. As interesting, some city officials first found out about the leak during a security workshop where a presenter used the data as an example of what you can…
Credit applications found near store Dumpster
Lisa Beisel reports: Reginald Faust of Annapolis was walking with his wife when he noticed a piece of paper – a credit application for the Room Store, he later realized – on the ground near a Dumpster in the shopping center across from the mall on Jennifer Road. He was one of several walkers in…
Hundreds Exposed to I-D Theft in Sparks Store Closing
Ed Pearce reports: The Hollywood Video store in the Baring Village Shopping Center like others in the chain is now closed, its shelves empty, but if you were a customer there and filled out a membership form that paperwork and all its information was left free for the taking out back when the store closed….
Atlanta investigates security breach
Eric Stirgus reports: Atlanta officials said Friday they are investigating how personal information of about 1,000 current and former city Fire Rescue employees found its way to the Internet. The information was used on a personal laptop and then accessed by another computer, city officials said in a news release. It included the names, addresses,…
Nursing home patient information found in residents’ yards
Amber Parcher reports: Montgomery County’s Department of Health and Human Services is looking into how numerous Wheaton nursing home papers containing sensitive patient information have made their way into nearby neighbors’ yards over the past few months. Last month, the county sent a nursing home inspector to investigate complaints from residents in the Wheaton Regional…