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OH: Dining Services faces security debacle

Posted on June 8, 2009 by Dissent

Everdeen Mason of Ohio State University’s student paper, The Lantern, reports: It’s been a rough end of the term for Ohio State Dining Services. The director of Dining Services, Thomas Stevenson, has resigned from his position, and 350 student employees had their social security numbers accidentally leaked in an e-mail. “There is absolutely no connection…

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Vocus employees notified of possible breach

Posted on June 5, 2009 by Dissent

I think I jinxed Vermont. I had just called them two days ago to inquire whether they really had had no breaches reported since February or if they were just behind in updating their web site. I was told that there had been no breaches to add to that site (although there are other state…

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ME: Printing glitch leads to ‘breach’

Posted on June 4, 2009 by Dissent

Betty Adams of The Kennebec Journal reports: Almost 600 people receiving unemployment benefits last week got direct-deposit information — including Social Security numbers — belonging to another person. Dick Thompson, head of the state Office of Information Technology, said the misinformation was sent out May 27 while the office produced material for the Department of…

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UK: Sensitive information sent to wrong address

Posted on June 4, 2009 by Dissent

Liam Sloan of Newbury Today reports: A [West Berkshire Council] blunder led to intimate details of vulnerable youngsters being posted to the wrong person. Worlds End resident Alayne Summers was shocked to receive a torn, wrongly-addressed envelope containing 100 pages of highly-sensitive information about troubled pupils applying for places at West Berkshire schools. The documents…

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AU: Westpac ‘stuff-up’ puts confidential customer details online

Posted on June 3, 2009 by Dissent

Mark Hawthorne of The Brisbane Times reports: A security breach has allowed confidential Westpac shareholder information to be included in an official document published on the Australian Securities Exchange website. A document Westpac released to the ASX in March contains the security holder reference numbers (SRN) and holder identification numbers (HIN) of up to 20…

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NZ: Police investigate alleged leak from DNA database

Posted on June 3, 2009 by Dissent

Police are investigating a claim an Environmental Science and Research worker has made an “inappropriate disclosure” from the national DNA profile databank. ESR said today a criminal investigation had started. “A staff member has been suspended pending the outcome of the police and internal investigations,” a spokeswoman said. The alleged security breach was the first…

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