Notre Dame is warning university employees to keep an eye on their bank accounts after a security breach. Personal information of some past and current employees – including name, social security number and birth date – was accidentally put onto a public website. University spokesman Dennis Brown says the error was corrected and the information…
Category: Exposure
Personal records of 1,400 residents found in B.C. government employee’s home
Lindsay Kines and Rob Shaw report: The British Columbia government is investigating a major security breach after police discovered the personal records of 1,400 income-assistance clients in the home of a government employee, the Victoria Times Colonist has learned. The records covered a period from December 2006 to April 2007 and included names, addresses, birth…
80,000 Mailers Sent Out With Recipients’ Social Security Numbers In Plain View
Ouch! Postcards sent out by the Universal American Action Network, a subsidiary of Universal American Insurance, had the recipients’ full Social Security Numbers in plain view. There were reportedly 80,000 postcards sent out last Friday to Universal clients around the country who are enrolled in their Medicare Advantage plan. WGAL reports: Universal American told News…
OH: Social security numbers found in area library books
Tim Miller reports: Folks have been warned about not giving out personal information, but never knew an old library book could hold clues to their identities. At the University of Toledo, books from the 1980s and 90s with readers’ social security numbers may still be in circulation. Today, when UT students check out a book,…
TX: Confidential Bushland ISD documents found
Mitch Roberts reports: Bushland officials are wondering if an employee or perhaps an ex-employee walked out of the office with highly confidential documents. Those documents were dropped off at Pronews 7. The documents were from the “free lunch” program from 2003 to 2006. There was a note attached claiming the documents were found at a…
Cops find laptop with 13,000 BNP members names on it
Tom McTague reports: Blundering BNP bosses lost a laptop with the names of all 13,000 party members. A former employee at the BNP HQ and call centre in Northern Ireland was owed unpaid wages and she claims hard-up bosses gave her the computer in lieu of payment, forgetting that it held the entire membership list….