Important safeguards that help airline security workers identify potential terrorists are being found inside Dumpsters in Ohio and neighboring states. Transportation Security Administration workers scrutinize each driver’s license to make sure that no one boards an airplane without proof of their identity, usually presented in the form of a driver’s license. TSA personnel scrutinize each…
Category: Exposure
NHS puts over 20,000 records at risk
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is issuing further warnings to NHS bodies about the importance of data security, after finding five more NHS organisations in breach of the Data Protection Act. In one case, a ward hand-over sheet containing notes about patients’ health was left on a bus. The Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust reported…
ID theft attributed to online public records
Some Pottawatomie County residents claim they are the victims of identity theft, and they believe it is the result of their Social Security numbers being visible online. […] At issue are mortgage and lease documents posted to a publicly accessible Web site. The documents were posted with social security numbers in view. Pottawatomie County clerk…
Missing sheriff’s laptop held SSN (updated)
Not much meat to the report, but WKRC, Local12.com in Ohio, is reporting that: A laptop missing from the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Department is putting some people in jeopardy of identity theft. A letter was sent out to those affected. The sheriff’s department says the computer contained personal information, including social security numbers. There doesn’t…
Pixily user e-mail addresses released
The private e-mail addresses of several hundred customers of Waltham, MA-based Pixily were accidentally shared with other customers Saturday in the aftermath of an Internet routing snafu that left many users unable to reach the document-scanning service for several hours. The breach, in which names intended for the “bcc” line of a customer service e-mail…
CVS, Walgreens settle with Indiana AG
Settlements have been reached between the Indiana Attorney General’s office and two pharmacy chains – CVS and Walgreens – to resolve data-breach complaints that customers’ medical information was improperly discarded in trash bins outside pharmacy stores. The agreement comes as the Attorney General begins a new concerted effort geared to address the growing problem of…