Josh Taylor reports: Telstra breached the Privacy Act by sending out tens of thousands of letters to the wrong addresses, according to the Australian Privacy Commissioner, which led to the personal information of about 60,300 Telstra customers being sent to the wrong people. In October last year, the Australian Communications and Media Authority and the…
Category: Business Sector
Washington Post reports breach of job seeker data (updated)
Elinor Mills reports: About 1.27 million user IDs and email addresses belonging to people looking for employment on The Washington Post jobs website were affected by a data breach in June, the newspaper has said. “We discovered that an unauthorised third party attacked our Jobs website and was able to obtain access to certain user…
Out of sight, but not out of court
I’ve been busy recently, backfilling DataLossDB.org. I’m currently working on 2007 (because who wants to tackle 2008 until we have to, right?). In the process, I’ve been reminded of some breaches that most of us probably never paid much attention to or followed up on. As a case in point, consider this entry in my…
Computer-Hacking Group Targets Apple In Latest Attack
Well, by now it may not be their latest attack, as the news report by Ian Sherr was published yesterday in the Wall Street Journal: A group of computer hackers on Sunday posted a document it claimed contains usernames and passwords for an Apple Inc. server, the latest in a string of brazen attacks that have compromised…
Oops: Dolphin Reveals Email Addresses of Beta Testers
From the Dolphin Support blog: Yesterday we sent an e-mail to a number of consumers who are our beta testers for Dolphin Browser HD v6.0. This time is different from our monthly newsletter in that we decided to send out the emails separately by using another email service. Through an unfortunate error by one of…
(follow-up) JetBlue notification letter indicates no evidence that any employee data accessed
As reported previously on this blog, JetBlue had a security breach involving the insertion of malware on their system. Last week, the airline notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office about the incident. Their letter was somewhat imprecise about when they were informed of the problem by a federal law enforcement agency, saying only that “Earlier…