John Erickson reports: A “mistake” is what led to the discovery of people’s names and Social Security numbers in a Gilbert dumpster. A tipster told ABC15 to look in the trash adjacent to Desert Title Service near Baseline and Lindsay roads. The dumpster was accessible to anyone and was not behind a locked gate; its…
Category: Exposure
NZ: City council documents fly loose (UPDATED)
Shelley Robinson reports from Christchurch: Thousands of city council documents filled with personal details, including bankruptcy and medical information, have been flying off the top of a soon to be demolished car parking building. For weeks, people in the Re:Start Mall and surrounding blocks have been finding parking infringement notices from 2001 – 2003. The…
Seattle University reports second breach involving folder permissions
Remember that April breach report from Seattle University involving incorrectly set permissions in some folders in the university’s Microsoft Exchange folder system? Well, it turns out that wasn’t their only problem with folder permissions. On July 17, Seattle University’s external counsel notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that on May 25, the university became aware…
Nexogy sued over web exposure of customers’ information (updated)
Here’s a breach I don’t recall seeing and that I only learned about because of a lawsuit. Law360 reports: A putative class action filed Wednesday in Florida state court claims that Nexogy Inc. and its parent LD Telecommunications released customers’ private information, including financial data, on the Internet, leaving them vulnerable to identity theft. Cassandra…
JP: Gifu police leak data to private company on local opposition to turbine project
As reported by the Asahi Shimbun: Officers with the Gifu Prefectural Police leaked personal information to a Chubu Electric Power Co. subsidiary about residents and others opposed to a plan to construct wind turbines in their neighborhood. Their actions could constitute a violation of the Local Public Service Law that imposes confidentiality obligations on local…
ZA: How to wreck customer relations
Wendy Knowler reports: As corporate mess-ups go, it was pretty big. A “pre-legal credit controller” employed by cellphone service provider Altech Autopage sent an e-mail to 45 of its subscribers earlier this month, many of them former subscribers, telling them to pay up or face the consequences. “We refer to your Altech Autopage account which…