From the oi-veh dept., Noel Towell reports: Centrelink has apologised to hundreds of users of the myGov web portal after their contact details were shared with hundreds of strangers – twice. The latest federal government data breach is being blamed on a rookie email error, someone at the giant Department of Human Services hitting the CC button on an email…
Category: Exposure
Popular Texas restaurant under fire after dumpster discovery
Alex Achten reports: It was a startling surprise for neighbors who found papers containing social security numbers, bank accounts, and other personal information blowing across their yards over the weekend. We did some digging, and found out the papers came from inside a dumpster at a popular nearby restaurant. Frances Roberts lives across the street…
Security Fail Exposed Details of Virgin Media’s UK Job Applicants
Mark Jackson reports: A security flaw in the third-party service that Virgin Media uses to process new job applications could have exposed the personal CV details of between 30,000 and 50,000 people to the Internet. A student called Alikhan Uzakov discovered the problem while filling out an application form for the operator (like this one). At this point he…
More than 5,000 people exposed in Habitat for Humanity data breach
Dell Cameron reports: A massive data breach earlier this month at Habitat for Humanity exposed the personal information of thousands of individuals, including their Social Security numbers. Habitat for Humanity of Michigan’s virtual hard drive backups, which contained more than 400GB of information, were discovered online by an Austin-based security researcher in early October. The…
Australia’s biggest data breach sees 1.3m records leaked
Allie Coyne reports: More than one million personal and medical records of Australian citizens donating blood to the Red Cross Blood Service have been exposed online in the country’s biggest and most damaging data breach to date. A 1.74 GB file containing 1.28 million donor records going back to 2010, published to a publicly-facing website,…
MT: Credit union tells customers about possible security breach
AP reports thatRocky Mountain Credit Union in Montana has notified 135 of its members that some of their personal information could have been publicly accessible through its website between April 15 and June 30. President and CEO Ed Stofko says the information technology staff found a security issue with the website customers used to upload documents while applying…