WRDW reports: The director of the non-profit organization, Community in Action, left town and abandoned donations along with her clients’ personal information. Her landlord discovered copies clients’ social security cards, drivers’ licenses and birth certificates left in the home. Trish Wilcher took back possession of her rental home just a few weeks ago. She rented…
Category: Exposure
Update to #InvestBank hack?
I had reported on a hack and extortion demand involving InvestBank back in November and December of 2015. The bank hadn’t paid the extortion demand by “Hacker Buba” and massive amounts of data had been dumped. This week, there was an update to the incident. I’m not sure what to make of it, but a…
Ca: UBC release of uncensored personal information an ‘honest mistake’: report
Gemma Karstens-Smith of CBC News reports: The release of uncensored details about the departure of a former University of British Columbia president was an honest mistake, says a new report. Former B.C. information and privacy commissioner David Loukidelis reviewed the university’s conduct and policies after hidden attachments containing uncensored personal details about Arvind Gupta’s abrupt…
PH: Voter database leaked by hackers (updated)
Rappler reports: Shortly after Anonymous PH defaced the Commission on Elections (Comelec) website, another group accessed the data of the poll body’s website, posting it publicly online. In a Facebook post before midnight Monday, March 28, a group calling itself LulzSec Pilipinas wrote, “A great lol to Commission on Elections, here’s your whoooooole database.” This appears…
Data breach exposes thousands of expats’ details in Thailand
AFP reports: The personal details of thousands of foreign nationals living in the South were briefly leaked online in what the site’s developer admitted Monday was a data breach during a test for police. The leak comes as the government nation pushes ahead with a much publicised crackdown against foreign visa overstayers and criminals, with…
A.G. Schneiderman Announces Settlement After Social Security Numbers Of Over 500 Job Applicants Posted Online
The NYS Attorney General’s has announced a settlement following a data breach I never heard about. And I’m guessing that some people will grumble that the monetary penalty is too light. NEW YORK – Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced a settlement with Doritex Corp. and its website developer Kallus Opraments, involving the disclosure…