Dozens of old city records containing private information about local military veterans were strewn about a Quincy Center neighborhood Tuesday, blowing around in the wind and available for anyone to pick up and view. The records, some of which contained personal information for Quincy military veterans, such as Social Security numbers, bank account data, healthcare…
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UT: Disbarred lawyer’s client files with personal information found in dumpster
Mike Anderson reports: David Shell is outraged. Files containing clients’ Social Security numbers and bank account information were found dumped outside the former office of Thomas Rasmussen near 4700 S. Highland Drive. One of those files contained Shell’s information. “I don’t believe it,” he said. “They should not be able to just take a receipt…
Student loan debt collector exposes thousands of students’ loan debts to others
If you fell behind in your student loan repayments to the U.S. Education Department, “Mike Doe” (not his real name) may know about it. He didn’t want to know, but a vendor for NCO Financial Systems, the collection agency contracted by USED, recently sent him other students’ loan repayment collection statements. The statements included the individuals’ names,…
Snelling Staffing discloses breach
Okay, here’s a breach report that had me scratching my head. See if this makes sense to you: a former Snelling Staffing employee tried to set up a cloud-based server at home and exposed employee information. But if s/he was a “former employee” at the time, why was s/he in possession of any employee information…
Seattle University notifies students after learning of possible information exposure
Seattle University was contacted by a student who discovered that permissions for some folders in the university’s Microsoft Exchange folder system had been set incorrectly, allowing anyone with a university email address to gain access to the files in those folders. The university reports that 628 current and former students had personal information in those…
How to lose a customer with one email gaffe, Tuesday edition
An Account Executive at Square wanted to introduce herself to clients in her area, so she sent a friendly email to them today: Hi there, I wanted to reach out to let you know my team realigned territories and I will be your new point of contact moving forward. I’d love to set up a call…