Thanks to Rian of RedTeam Protection, here are some more breaches they uncovered: An executive producer at a Manhattan based television Production Company published 2,755 documents onto the gnutella file-sharing network. Contractors of this firm were required to provide their name, date of birth, and social security number for tax purposes. The invoices with personal…
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Floridians warned about ID data breach at Wyndham Hotels
Note: this is an update to a breach we reported here last month and that occurred last summer. In addition to the Florida story below, Wyndham reported to NYS that the breach affected 8,787 NYS residents (report not yet available online). Attorney General Bill McCollum is asking Floridians to monitor their credit statements to ensure…
More p2p fiascos
Rian from RedTeam Protection, a division of Tony Josephs and Sons Investigations Inc., just sent me another batch of p2p cockups that exposed personal — and in some cases — sensitive medical — information. In each case, RedTeam advised the entity and/or helped ensure removal of the filesharing application. Some of these breaches are more…
UK: Busy Bees childcare voucher data leak plugged – Update
A UK child care voucher scheme has been taken off line after user Nick Gibbins found that the “web” application was exposing personal data for over one hundred thousand users. Gibbins found that the Busy Bees childcare voucher system was actually implemented using Citrix Metaframe, exporting the user interface from a Windows 2000 application to…
Laptop theft from JetDirect Aviation offices leaves thousands at risk
When JetDirect Aviation Holdings, LLC discovered that a laptop had been stolen from the accounting area of its Weymouth Massachusetts location sometime during the evening of February 2 or early morning of February 3, it wasted no time. The data on the laptop affected 1,576 current employees, as well as 651 former employees, and an…
WA: Kennewick real estate agent sentenced for ID theft scheme
Kristin M. Kraemer reports: A 56-year-old woman who helped her adult daughter defraud bank customers so they could buy expensive online goods tearfully said Tuesday that their relationship is forever changed. Cynthia Jean Walker was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Richland to six months in federal custody — the same sentence her daughter received…