The following was posted by John Donavan and attributed to Royal Dutch Shell (“Shell”) Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer Richard Wiseman: Colleagues, I am writing to inform you of an incident involving misuse of company data. It has become clear recently that the Global Address List, containing contact information of everyone in Shell and some…
Category: Breach Types
MO: Envelope glitch gives peek at data
Janese Heavin reports: Rex Cone is always concerned about identity theft. So he was especially worried when he received a tax form from the University of Missouri last week that allowed his Social Security number to be displayed through the envelope’s window. “With all of the public service announcements saying to look out for your…
NY: Documents found in mall parking lot
WABC reports: […] The confidential papers were found by a man at the Palisades Mall in Rockland County. To make it worse, and what really got the man angry, is that no one at the mall seemed interested in taking those documents back. […] The applications are for a clothing store named Metropark, a Los…
MO: Personal Documents Discovered in Dumpster (updated)
Emily Baucum reports that bankers boxes full of unredacted personal and financial records from former clients of Nation Wide Credit Counseling were found in a public dumpster in Battlefield, Missouri. As if that is not troubling enough, Baucum reports that “The Battlefield Police Department is investigating the situation, but the boxes are still in the…
Database bug at Woot leaves reader wary of ordering
Laura Northrup writes: Robear wanted to order from shirt.woot, but something strange happened when he went to register. After choosing a username and entering his e-mail address, he noticed that all of the forms were pre-populated with another customer’s information…including that user’s credit card information. He contacted Woot to try to find out what could…
UK: ‘Senstive information posted’ on town hall website
Data protection rules have come under the microscope after residents’ driving licences and utility bills were allegedly posted on a council’s website. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is now investigating complaints made about Ashford council’s online planning archive, which contains scans of documents dating back to 1984. Usually such files are limited to letters, application…