The Wyoming Department of Health (WDH) announced today an error has lead to potential online exposure of personal information provided by clients and applicants of the Wyoming Kid Care CHIP program. WDH Information Technology was notified Thursday that personal information of Kid Care clients was improperly appearing in Google search results. Thirty seconds upon receiving…
Category: Exposure
TX: Woman sentenced to 34 years over Irving ISD ID theft
As a follow-up to a case previously covered on this site where Irving ISD employees became victims of ID theft after paper records with their personal information was tossed out, unshredded, the Associated Press now reports that Sharon Denise Seeley pleaded guilty and was sentenced for her role in the scam. Seeley was sentenced to…
Ca: Brock student information inadvertently leaked to Internet
Brock University officials scrambled this week to secure the private information of more than 17,000 students that was inadvertently put up on the Internet. An error was made on Dec. 22 when a library staff member accidentally uploaded a file containing all student names, student numbers, phone numbers, mailing and email addresses to the publicly…
Strangers Lose Personal Information in Non-Profit Mix-Up
Emily Rittman reports: A mistake by a not-for-profit group may put more than 200 landlords at risk for identity theft. The mistake sent tax forms and social security numbers to strangers. More than 500 landlords work with OACAC, the Ozarks Area Community Action Corporation. On January 28, 2010, half of those landlords didn’t receive tax…
Nl: University of Utrecht leaks pay slips
Karin Spaink summarizes, in English, a breach reported on security.nl: Randstad HR Solutions, which apparently takes care of the payroll information of the employees of the University of Utrecht, made an error. Employees did not only receive their own January pay slip and yearly overviews, but also slips and overviews intended for others. Randstad HR…
Dutch Dept. of Public Works leaks subscribers’ data
Karin Spaink summarizes, in English, a breach reported on Webwereld on January 27: The Dpt of Public Works (Rijkswaterstaat) installed a new profile system on their web site that subscribers to their newsletter had to use. When logging in to the system, subscribers were presented with the personal data of the previous visitor. The leaked…