WSB-TV in Atlanta reports: An Atlanta mother is upset after she says her daughter’s personal files were left out in a classroom and someone posted pictures of them on Instagram. Maisha Harris says the files showed her daughter’s Social Security number on them and she’s worried about identity theft. “It shows schools, name, her last…
Category: Exposure
NC: 70+ Lenoir County employees compromised by data breach
WNCT reports that more than 70 Lenoir County employees have been notified that their names and Social Security numbers were exposed due an error by a Human Resources employee who neglected to redact the data in a salary report. Kinston provides some additional details. The unredacted report was sent to one person, who had worked in law…
UK: Herts police admits data breach which published confidential details of 61 people on government website
Herts and Essex Observer reports: HERTS Constabulary is blaming a “computer error” after confidential information about people involved in anti-social behaviour cases was uploaded onto a Government website. The names and addresses of 61 individuals were posted on the Herts ‘local priorities’ pages on Home Office website police.uk. Read more on Herts and Essex Observer.
FCC jumps into data security; plans $10 million fine for carriers that breached consumer privacy
Back in 2013, I blogged about a breach involving TerraCom and YourTel. Their breach response was so poor that I devoted two posts to criticizing them. But as bad as the breach and their response were, things got even worse when Scripps News kept investigating and uncovered more problems. It was no surprise, therefore, to learn…
Personal info of almost 100,000 people exposed through flaw on site for student transcripts
Ashkan Soltani, Julie Tate and Ellen Nakashima report: The personal information of almost 100,000 people seeking their high school transcripts was recently exposed on a Web site that helps students obtain their records. The site, NeedMyTranscript.com, facilitates requests from all 50 states and covers more than 18,000 high schools around the country, according to its Web…
IE: Data breach investigated after Irish Water discloses bank details of at least 10 customers
Elaine Edwards reports: Irish Water is investigating a data breach after it sent bank details relating to a number of individuals to the wrong people. The issue emerged after one man tweeted yesterday that the utility had sent his bank information to his landlord. Paul Keogan, from Dublin, said his landlord had phoned him on Sunday…