Kim Wilhelm of KWCH12 reports that “boxes and boxes” of unshredded confidential personal and financial information from apartment rental applications were found in a dumpster behind Madison Park Apartments in Wichita. Now if this had happened in Texas, the state might do something and even fine the company, but I wonder what, if anything, Kansas…
Category: Exposure
IN: Business accidently tosses records containing personal information for area residents
Mike Bennett of the Palladium Item reports that documents with personal information, including Social Security numbers, from hundreds of residents in eastern Indiana were found in recycling bins over the weekend. John Fisher, the president of Atlas Collections, took full responsibility for the accident, claiming that he didn’t know what was in the boxes he…
Washington Department of Labor and Industries exposes contractors’ SSN on web site
In an article that requires a subscription for full access, Bert Caldwell of The Spokesman Review reports that the Washington Department of Labor and Industries web site was shut down for several hours yesterday after a contractor realized his Social Security number was exposed and contacted them. A spokesperson said that the problem was a…
EU leaders’ passport numbers and medical info found on public computer in Prague
The Helsinki Times reports that a publicly available computer at a Prague hotel contained the passport numbers and itineraries of about 200 leaders from EU member states who gathered there April 5 for an EU-US summit. The breach has been attributed to human error. The breach was discovered by a Finnish tourist who used the…
HK: Data of 15,000 NUS alumni leaked
Tan Weizhen reports: Computer security is being beefed up across the National University of Singapore (NUS) after sensitive data of more than 15,000 alumni members was leaked in an e-mail. On April1, the NUS Career Centre sent an e-mail to about 450 NUS alumni, all of whom graduated last year, to invite them to a…
IN: Personal Documents Found Strewn Along Rural Road
6News reports that thousands of documents containing personal information — including Social Security numbers and financial information — were found on a rural road. The files appear to have come from DFS Capital Funding.