Ben Flanagan reports: Some of HSBC Middle East’s wealthiest customers have complained that their privacy has been compromised after the bank sent a mass mailout to its ‘Premier’ customers – whom are required to maintain a minimum balance or investment of AED350,000 ($95,300) – with customers’ email addresses visible in the ‘To’ field. The customer…
Category: Exposure
Data Redaction: You’re Doing it Wrong
John Bambenek writes: PDF files are a common way to distribute documents on the Internet and even are used for distributing documents with redacted (removed) content. However, when you distribute redacted documents make sure that the data you don’t want out there isn’t, in fact, still in the file. Case in point, take the upcoming…
ESB tells customers of leak
Bobbi Mlynar reports: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure for ESB Financial officials who this morning announced that a data backup seven years ago had inadvertently been sent to an unauthorized storage source. Marketing Vice President Karen Sommers said that the bank had hired a specialist to work on a special…
SC: DHEC notifying clients of personal information breach
Previous coverage on this breach can be found here and here. The S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control continues to notify clients whose personal information was included on improperly discarded DHEC documents, the agency reported today. “We’ve already mailed letters to individuals, but we don’t have complete mailing addresses for a small number of…
Blippy Users’ Credit Card Numbers Exposed in Google Search Results
Blippy’s web site says, “Blippy is a fun and easy way to see and discuss what everyone’s buying.” It may also be a fun and easy way for identity thieves to get your credit card number. Jennifer van Grove reports: Sharing your credit card and online purchases with friends on the web sounds risky and…
Telstra confirms customer data breach
Ben Grubb reports: Telstra has patched a data breach on its business website that had the potential to reveal personal information, such as date of birth, of 700 customers. Telstra confirmed to ZDNet Australia yesterday afternoon that the only details that could be sighted without the need to log-in were the name, address and account…