From BBC: A council has apologised after papers holding personal staff details were found discarded in a street. Liberal Democrat councillor Paul Zukowskyj said he saw Hertfordshire County Council documents outside a former adult care office in Hatfield. Derrick Ashley, cabinet member for resources, said the council apologised and would investigate how it happened. Mr…
Category: Exposure
Contractor’s “coding loophole” exposed Boston Teachers Union Health & Welfare Fund members’ SSN
A “coding loophole” by its contractor Classic Administrative Services reportedly exposed the names and Social Security numbers of 506 members of the Boston Teachers Union Health & Welfare Fund. The breach was discovered by a member doing a Google Search on April 4, and the notification to those affected does not indicate for how long their data…
UK: Tesco employees details discarded in Westcliff street
From Echo News: A filing cabinet found in a Southend street contained copies of passports, driving licences and bank details of employees at Tesco in Westcliff, it has been claimed. The cabinet had personal information of up to 20 individuals, all of whom are current or former employees of the Tesco Express, in London Road….
FL: Teacher preparation data exposed online
Travis Pillow reports: Florida’s Education Commissioner is ordering a review of the state’s data security procedures after personal information for thousands of teachers-in-training was exposed on the Internet. The state Department of Education announced Saturday that personal information for about 47,000 participants in state teacher preparation programs was publicly available on the Internet for two…
AL: Unsecured documents found at Banks Middle School
Cory McGinnis reports, “The documents are the records of former Banks Middle School students, that include addresses, phone numbers, and even social security numbers.” How many years have the documents been unsecured and exposed this way? And will anyone be notifying those whose records were so exposed?
Facebook Security Breach Exposes Six Million Email Addresses and Telephone Numbers
Kara Swisher reports: Facebook reported on Friday a bug in its system “that may have allowed some of a person’s contact information (email or phone number) to be accessed by people who either had some contact information about that person or some connection to them.” The bug, which was reported via Facebook’s crowdsourced, White Hat security researcher program,…