Michael Rey reports: In just one day the CBS affiliate station KPHO in Phoenix was able to replicate the type of results of our investigation into the documents saved on the hard drives of digital copiers. […] No surprise that they found something. A lot of somethings. This time the sensitive documents were from a…
Category: Exposure
Police data on copiers causes city to scramble
Brian Meyer and Jay Rey report that the city of Buffalo is scrambling in the aftermath of a CBS report that confidential data was found on copier hard drives that were up for sale at a warehouse: Stored on one of the hard drives were details involving domestic-violence complaints along with a list of wanted…
Affinity Health Plan notifies over 409,000 of breach
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…
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…