Ry Crozier of iTnews reports: A defunct payment gateway has exposed as many as 19,000 credit card numbers, including up to 60 Australian numbers. The discovery by a local IT industry worker was made by mistake and appears to be caused by a known issue with the Google search engine, in which the pages of…
Category: Exposure
ID theft feared as files found in street in East New York, Brooklyn
I know that most of the world is more concerned with electronic data breaches than paper breaches, but I’ve always been as concerned, and in some cases, more concerned, about paper breaches. Here’s another example from New York, reported by Veronika Belenkaya of the NY Daily News: Dozens of confidential files with city public housing…
TN: Sensitive School Info Found Along Road
Josh DeVine of WSMV reports that confidential records including 21 students’ names, Social Security numbers and disabilities were found in the street. The students had all attended Bailey Middle School in 2006.
RI: E-mail error by Brown University leads to changes
Joanna Wohlmuth of The Brown Daily Herald reports that Brown’s Office of Financial Aid most likely did not violate federal or state laws when it inadvertently revealed the full names and email addresses of nearly 1,800 students who have initiated an application for University financial assistance in an email reminder to applicants. That sounds about…
Walgreens Health Initiative notifies Kentucky retirees of email transmission error
Stephanie Steitzer reports that names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers of roughly 28,000 state retirees were e-mailed without the required encryption to the Kentucky Retirement Systems by Walgreens Health Initiative, its pharmacy benefit provider. Affected retirees were notified by letter from WHI, who informed recipients that the mistake was “solely the responsibility of…
Central Ohio Transit Authority employees notified their SSN disclosed
Debbie Gebolys of The Columbus Dispatch reports that more than 900 current and former COTA employees recently learned that their Social Security numbers had been sent to 51 health-insurance companies who were bidding on providing disability insurance to COTA. This was apparently not the first time this type of thing had happened. In 2006, COTA…