PC Pro reports: Demon Internet has sent out a spreadsheet containing the personal details of thousands of customers with one of its new ebills. The spreadsheet – which has been forwarded to PC Pro – contains email addresses, telephone numbers and what appears to be usernames and passwords for the ebilling system. […] The Excel…
Category: Exposure
EKU posted about 5,000 Social Security numbers online for a year
The names and Social Security numbers of about 5,000 Eastern Kentucky University faculty, staff and student workers were posted inadvertently on the Internet last September, where they have been displayed for a year, according to EKU President Doug Whitlock. There’s no evidence the information was accessed or replicated, Whitlock said in a campus-wide e-mail sent…
Authorities Investigate Financial Records Found in Dumpsters
South Carolina authorities are investigating piles of files found in dumpsters that contain financial records, tax filings, even social security numbers of people and businesses in Mount Pleasant and across the nation. According to ABC News in Charleston, many appear tied to the radio industry. As of today, it’s not clear who is responsible for…
Public disclosure disclosed a bit too much
Over on Sound Politics, Mark Griswold writes: While perusing the PDC’s website this morning I came across a major security breach. For obvious reasons I’m not going to post the information I have and like a good citizen I’ve reported it to the PDC. In short though, I am now in possession of the names,…
T. Rowe Price error leads to breach notification
An internal error at T. Rowe Price Financial Services has resulted in clients receiving images of other clients’ checks. According to a September 15 letter written by their Vice President, Deborah D. Seidel to the New Hampshire Department of Justice: … due to an internal error, images of checks that we processed for two T….
Rocky Mountain Bank reveals “oops” in court papers
As noted on PogoWasRight.org yesterday, Thomas Claburn of Information Week reports that when Rocky Mountain Bank tried to get a court to seal its lawsuit against Google to compel disclosure of information on the recipient of an errant Gmail containing sensitive customer information, the court declined. It looks like the Streisand Effect has struck again,…