Ashley Swann reports: Some local residents and business owners are on high alert after hundreds of personal documents were found scattered in the middle of a busy Jonesboro intersection. Channel 2’s Ashley Swann spoke with a man who went to help clean up the mess. “We’ve got everything from loan applications to balance sheets, to…
Category: Exposure
CA: USPS investigating personal information breach in Menlo Park
Vic Lee writes: Customers in Menlo Park were shocked at what they found on the counters at the local post office — social security numbers and other personal information on a pad of scratch paper. It’s a story you’ll only see on ABC7 News. A postal service spokesperson tells us this could have been a…
Georgia Department of Driver Services public computers expose personal information
Ross McLaughlin reports: 11Alive’s Center for Investigative Action went undercover to expose how a state agency that you trust to protect your personal information is putting people at risk for identity theft. Your private information, available for anyone to see — tax returns, Social Security numbers, you name it. It may not have been intentional,…
MI: Tax preparer leaves clients’ tax records behind in foreclosed home, but so did Treasury agents sent in to clean it out
Okay, this is bad. Ken Kolker reports: Federal agents raided a tax preparer’s former home and seized abandoned documents from decades of returns, including names, addresses and Social Security numbers — but they didn’t get it all, Target 8 discovered on Wednesday. Target 8 found thousands of pages of tax documents in a burn barrel…
IE: Data breach on driver licence website investigated
Over on Twitter, Brian Honan just noted that two infosec stories led the evening news in Ireland tonight. One of them surely must be the Loyaltybuild/Supervalu breach, reported previously on this blog. I suspect this is the other one: The Road Safety Authority has confirmed that a data breach has occurred on the website for…
IN: Jeffersonville reports ‘serious’ breach of personal data that has been recurring since…. 2001!
Charlie White reports: Jeffersonville is notifying city vendors and officials of a recurring “serious” data breach in which their names and addresses — and some Social Security numbers — were mistakenly e-mailed to city employees. “Because this is a serious incident, we strongly encourage you to take preventative measures now to help prevent and detect…