Krystel Sherrell reports: Greenwood police are investigating after nearly a dozen folders of paperwork containing personal information were found in the middle of a busy street. “There were hundreds, if not, close to a thousand pieces of paper,” Jacob Bowling said. “There had to be at least 200 names in there.” It’s an old story…
Category: Exposure
University of East Anglia leaks the names of students who have been sexually assaulted, suicidal and had abortions to the whole department
George Martin and Matt Howard report: An email detailing confidential extenuating circumstances has been sent to every undergraduate student in the American Studies school at UEA, The Tab can exclusively reveal. It contained information about several private issues, including one student with suicidal tendencies, one who had an abortion and one who had been sexually…
Oklahoma U. shuts down file sharing service after failing to protect thousands of students’ records
Dana Branham reports: OU unintentionally exposed thousands of students’ educational records — including social security numbers, financial aid information and grades in records dating to at least 2002 — through lax privacy settings in a campus file-sharing network, violating federal law. The university scrambled to safeguard the files late Tuesday after learning The Daily had…
Oops. Tata dev accidentally leaked banks’ code on public GitHub repo
Iain Thomson reports: Staff at Indian outsourcing biz Tata Consultancy Service uploaded a huge trove of financial institutions’ source code and internal documents to a public GitHub repository, an IT expert has claimed. Jason Coulls, CTO of food safety testing company Tellspec and a former banking software developer, said he stumbled upon the collection of…
You shot the messenger and then needed her help? How did that work out for you?
Some readers might appreciate an update as to what happened when Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center and iHealth Solutions sent legal threat letters to this site after I notified them and reported that they were leaking protected health information. As I previously noted, I was – and remain – very grateful to Covington & Burling for their representation of me and this…
HSBC reveals customer information leak
Raymond Hainey reports: HSBC Bermuda yesterday apologised after it e-mailed personal information on customers to other account holders. The e-mails contained names, e-mail addresses, countries of residence, the name of the customers’ relationship manager and HSBC customer identification numbers. Now the bank has launched an investigation to find out how the personal details — attached…