Corinne Riechert reports a follow-up to a breach previously noted on this site: The Australian Privacy Commissioner has accepted an enforceable undertaking from ARC Mercantile following a breach of personal customer data at the end of last year, which occurred when an ARC employee posted a spreadsheet of customers owing money to Optus on Freelancer.com. Read more…
Category: Exposure
MA: SSNs, addresses inadvertently posted on Walpole Police Dept.’s website
WFXT reports: Social security numbers, addresses, phone numbers and other personal information was accidentally posted on Walpole Police Department‘s website. The personal information was part of last week’s dispatch log. The dispatch log contains a record of all incidents officer responded to, and that includes all of the personal information that is redacted from the press…
NE: Personal and medical information discarded after pharmacy closes business
Max Massey of KOLN reports that the former owner of Four Star Drug in Lincoln said he had shredded, or transferred all of the important documents once his store went out of business. Sometimes a picture does speak 1,000 words. Look at this stack of papers with social security numbers, medical history, prescriptions, and even papers labeled confidential….
Fired employee sues SF State for $1 million after alleged hack
Golden Gate Express reports on a lawsuit stemming from a breach you may not have heard about: A former SF State information security officer claimed in a lawsuit that she was fired in a University attempt to sweep “under the rug” a 2014 hack involving a significant student records breach including financial records and password reset…
Vietnamese hotel leaves customers’ credit card data exposed online
From the MacKeeper Security Research Center, another misconfigured database leaking data. This time, it’s the Silverland Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam with thousands of unencrypted credit cards. According to their report, the total number of entries reached 6377 items (credit cards details in plain text). And this should not inspire confidence in potential hotel…
An unprotected database containing personal customer data of thousands of off-grid electricity customers was accessible for months.
Zack Whittaker reports: Thousands of remote villagers in Guatemala and South Africa are living off the grid, but their personal information isn’t. Chris Vickery, lead security researcher of the MacKeeper security research team, discovered an unprotected database with no password over two months ago. Anyone who knew the database was there could access more than…