Jan Vermeulen of MyBroadband reports: First National Bank’s online card tracking facility exposed the names, ID numbers, phone numbers, and delivery addresses of clients to anyone who knows what the reference number for the tracking service looks like. These reference numbers are sequential, so if you know one it is very easy to guess others…
Category: Exposure
NZ: Legal firm divulges private files
Phil Kitchin reports: A lawyer’s practice used clients’ sensitive files as recycling paper for photocopying – and posted out hundreds of pages of private and confidential details about their cases. The details, sent to a former client who requested a copy of her own file, include names and addresses of people involved in suppressed court…
LA: New Orleans student Social Security numbers found on auctioned-off laptops
Danielle Dreilinger reports: State officials announced Friday that the Social Security numbers, names and birthdates of 210 students were left on at least two laptops sold at auction Oct. 11. Those laptops were surplus equipment from the Future Is Now charter group sold after the organization ended its program at John McDonogh High in New…
WI: Marquette University suffers potential data breach on grad school applications
Gitte Laasby reports: Marquette University has suffered a potential data breach because of a technical glitch that allowed anyone with Marquette login credentials access to personal information on people’s graduate school applications kept on an internal server. The accessible information includes Social Security numbers, dates of birth, addresses, test scores and financial information, Marquette University…
UK: Swale council blames human error for data protection breach
Hayley Robinson reports: Swale council has been forced to apologise and may face investigation after the email addresses of about 2,500 residents were sent out to the public. A blunder meant they were inadvertently shared on a message promoting an e-billing system. The emails were sent out in batches of 10, containing about 250 contact…
VA: Richmond school officials investigate security breach involving student files
Zachary Reid reports: Richmond school officials are conducting an intensive internal investigation of student records after a School Board member shared confidential information about at least 20 students with a vendor that provides mental health services. Tichi L. Pinkney Eppes, of the 9th District, publicly apologized a day after her colleagues were told about the…