Kate Adams of BayToday reports that a Widdifield Secondary School teacher’s web site exposed student information including contact information and Ontario Health Insurance Program numbers. An investigation revealed that the information was only exposed briefly and that there were only a few “hits.” The school board was able to ascertain the IPs of those accessing…
Category: Exposure
Dutch consumer site exposed personal information
According to a summary of a news story in NOS offered by Karin Spaink, a Dutch agency that resolves consumer disputes with businesses was making everyone’s files available to anyone who logged in to the site. The Dispute Committee handles more than 10,000 complaints per year, and files going back to 2005 could be retrieved….
Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: As a follow-up to a breach covered on PogoWasRight.org last year, Anthony Wood, 45, a/k/a Anthony Bickerstaff, was sentenced to four years in prison and ordered to pay $67,292 in restitution for using stolen personal information of customers at Commerce Bank in Mount Laurel. Co-defendants Jennifer Mullner, a former loan services…
Deja vu all over again at Binghamton University
Robert Hadad-Zlokower of the Binghamton University Pipe Dream reports: Binghamton University announced Tuesday that it had let WHRW, the student-run radio station, members off the hook for “gaining access” this March to an unlocked room filled with students’ personal information … a few hours later, it happened again. While he was walking through an entrance…
OR: Sensitive Documents Found Outside Business
KPTV reports that thousands of documents with credit card receipts exposing full credit card numbers and checks with routing and account numbers were found in a dumpster behind the Brooke Auto Insurance Company. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in November.
CO: Sensitive documents were not secure?
Peter Marcus of The Denver Daily News reports: City employees and officials are in the midst of a blame game over unsecured juvenile court records and sensitive personnel files. Denver Auditor Dennis Gallagher yesterday issued an alert warning of security concerns over unsecured juvenile court records, as well as sensitive personnel files, left open to…