Phil Heidenreich reports: The Edmonton Humane Society issued an apology on Tuesday after it says the personal financial information of at least five participants in one of its programs was “accidentally posted on the organization’s corporate website for a short period of time.” Read more on GlobalNews.ca.
Category: Exposure
USPS Site Exposed Data on 60 Million Users
Brian Krebs reports: U.S. Postal Service just fixed a security weakness that allowed anyone who has an account at usps.com to view account details for some 60 million other users, and in some cases to modify account details on their behalf. KrebsOnSecurity was contacted last week by a researcher who discovered the problem, but who asked…
Boxes of private, personal records left exposed in government office for weeks
CBC News reports: Fifty boxes of records containing “sensitive personal information” spent nearly three weeks sitting in a central area of the Grand Falls-Windsor Department of Transportation and Works depot this spring, according to Donovan Molloy, the province’s privacy commissioner. “It’s one of the most serious inadvertent breaches that I’ve seen in my term as…
This UK pub chain left 17,000 customer details exposed online
Nicole Kobie reports: The personal details of thousands of beer drinkers were left exposed thanks to a Wi-Fi provider proving leakier than a smashed pint glass. Brewhouse & Kitchen is a small chain of pubs with 23 locations across the UK. These include locations in London, Nottingham, Chester, Cardiff and Bristol. Patrons attempting to access…
Children’s charity Kars4Kids leaks info on 21,000 donors
Bob Diachenko of HackenProof.com reports: Kars4Kids is a charity that asks people to donate their cars, motorcycles, RVs, and real estate. They are most known for their nationwide advertising using their hypnotic theme song where a child and a Johny Cash impersonator sing the phone number and invites people to donate their cars today. On…
Ca: Department Failed To Follow Directive Following Privacy Breach: Molloy
Oh …. (insert your preferred three-letter acronym). VOCM reports from St. John’s, NL: The privacy commissioner has found a government department not only committed a privacy breach, but that it failed to follow a subsequent directive from the commissioner. Donovan Molloy says the Department of Transportation and Works relocated a number of paper records to…