Joseph Cox reports: Alleged voting records of millions of American citizens have been uploaded to the dark web on a site affiliated with a well-known cybercrime forum. Although the information is not particularly sensitive in its own right, its presence on the site shows that even easily obtainable personal data can be of interest to…
Category: Exposure
Personal information of some who sought employment through Berks & Beyond Employment Services found in recycling center
Paul Muschick reports that a woman found unshredded paperwork from Berks & Beyond Employment Services in an Allentown recycling center. The papers included job applications, complete with SSN, job histories, and personal details, as well as employee time sheets and other personal information. Chris Garner, owner of Berks & Beyond, told me a limited amount…
Il: Garbage truck driver finds top secret Navy docs
A military garbage truck driver prevented a potentially devastating IDF information leak on Wednesday, when he discovered highly classified documents from the office of the Navy’s chief of staff while emptying out his vehicle at the Hiriya trash dump site in central Israel. Read more on Times of Israel.
TX: Couple sues Plano company after private images posted online
Amber Downing reports: A local couple is suing a cell phone repair company after an employee allegedly posted dozens of pornographic images of them on social media. Dane Jaskinia said he sent his Samsung phone in for repairs in April 2015 after the charge port broke. Sprint sent the phone to Repair Services Inc. in Plano. A…
Ca: Western University students’ personal information published online
Iain Boekhoff reports: The University is investigating after a document containing personal information of 2014–15 first-year main campus students was made publicly available online. The downloadable Excel document contains the full names, Western email addresses, what residence they were in, home phone number, cell phone number and program or faculty of current second-year students. That…
MaineGeneral breach update: investigation revealed additional PHI compromised
There’s an update to a breach reported by MaineGeneral Health in December after the FBI alerted them in November that information had been found on an external web site. At the time of their December notification, MG had noted that the scope of the incident was still under investigation. Today, they issued a press release with…