A system bug in a popular farming game on the mixi social networking site led to personal details of as many as 4,200 users being leaked online, it has been learned. Phone numbers and e-mail addresses of users who made credit card purchases of special items in the Sunshine Bokujo (Sunshine stock farm) game were…
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KS: State Investigating Care Facility’s Disposal Of Records
The Department on Aging is investigating allegations a Topeka care facility put documents with personal information in a public recycling dumpster. The agency says Briarcliff Care Center, 3224 SW 29th St., reported the incident to them Friday morning. A person reported finding the documents Thursday night in a recycling dumpster at SE 29th and Adams….
Database bug at Woot leaves reader wary of ordering
Laura Northrup writes: Robear wanted to order from shirt.woot, but something strange happened when he went to register. After choosing a username and entering his e-mail address, he noticed that all of the forms were pre-populated with another customer’s information…including that user’s credit card information. He contacted Woot to try to find out what could…
KS: Pharmacy records recovered from downtown trash bin
Mark Fagan reports: The owner of the former Round Corner Pharmacy was scrambling Thursday night to recover hundreds of detailed customer records that had been thrown away during the building’s renovations. Tom Wilcox was notified Thursday evening that a desk drawer filled with prescription records from 2007 had been overturned in a roll-off trash container…
Your Personal Information Found In The Trash
Marshall Zelinger reports: COLORADO SPRINGS – Your personal information is available for anyone to get their hands on. Customers at a now-closed Hollywood Video near South Academy and Chelton Road may have their personal information just sitting in the trash outside the building. NEWSCHANNEL 13 found piles of trash with names, phone numbers, addresses, birth…
OR: Hundreds of personal files dumped at Redmond site
Amy Easley reports: Dozens of boxes containing personal information, from bills to bank statements, were discovered at the Negus Transfer Station in Redmond Saturday morning. Joe, a Crooked River Ranch resident, said Monday he came across the files while he was unloading his recyclables. “I started looking at the files, and there was probably a…