Alfa Specialty Insurance Corp. and Alfa Vision Insurance Corp. are notifying some customers that personal information related to auto insurance policies was inadvertently exposed on the Internet. The exposure was discovered on May 4th. The source of the exposure was one of their servers in their Brentwood, Tennessee location. Exposed information included customers’ names, addresses, dates…
Category: Exposure
Misdirected email faulted in data breach affecting hundreds of UPMC insurance customers
Confirmation from Adam Smeltz of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that the UPMC Health Plan breach reported yesterday involved e-mail: UPMC Health Plan blamed a misfired email message for the release of personal information about 722 members. The email meant for a physician’s office in Lawrence County was sent instead to an incorrect address, revealing patient names, insurance…
NJ: Breakwater Beach security breach puts hundreds of employee documents online
Karin Price Mueller reports: Hundreds of documents containing personal information of some employees at Jenkinson’s Breakwater Beach Waterpark at Casino Pier in Seaside Heights have been available online to anyone who clicks in the right place, Bamboozled has learned. The documents include copies of Social Security cards, driver’s licenses, birth certificates, passports, student IDs, tax forms,…
Dutch photojournalist convicted; misused leaked login credentials and shared the info on WhatsApp
Janene Van Jaarsveldt reports: A 22 year old freelance 112 photo journalist from Drunen has been found guilty of computer intrusion after he found login details of a secure system online, used it to log in to the system and then spread the information. The court in Oost-Brabant sentenced him to 80 hours of community…
Google accidentally reveals data on ‘right to be forgotten’ requests
Interesting data leak. Sylvia Tippman and Julia Powles report: Less than 5% of nearly 220,000 individual requests made to Google to selectively remove links to online information concern criminals, politicians and high-profile public figures, the Guardian has learned, with more than 95% of requests coming from everyday members of the public. The Guardian has discovered new data…
Anonymous Fights Animal Cruelty by Exposing Email Orders to Kill Bear Cubs
Farzan Hussain writes: This weekend, Bryce Casavant who is a Canadian conservation officer was suspended from duty when he denied the orders to kill two black bear cubs after their mother was killed for repetitively raiding a freezer located at Port Hardy which was filled with salmon and meat. Now a series of emails has been released…