Ina Steiner writes: In an email sent to shoppers this week, “Fresh Offerings from Your Favorite Shops,” Etsy mistakenly included the names of sellers taken from their credit card information on file. No other credit card information was included in the email. It’s not clear how it happened since all credit card information should be…
Category: Exposure
‘Glitch’ publishes private info of more than 100 Oakland Community College students
Diana Dillaber Murray reports that a “computer glitch” is being blamed for students’ information being exposed on the Internet: Oakland Community College is investigating how personal information of more than 100 students in connection with student loans became available on the college website. The information has been removed from the website and OCC officials are…
VA: Chesterfield mom ‘disgusted’ after personal, financial info found in dumpster
Chris Thomas reports: A Chesterfield mom is fighting mad after learning her family’s personal information is discovered, tossed away, near a trash can. Her credit card numbers and her child’s social security number was discovered outside their taekwondo instructor’s business. It is located in the Arch Village shopping center off Midlothian Turnpike. We are told…
NZ: Ministry breaches pupils’ privacy
Unbelievable how many email breaches we’re seeing reported in New Zealand recently. Here’s yet another one: The Privacy Commissioner has been notified after the school marks of 38 teenaged pupils were sent to the wrong email recipients. Acting Secretary for Education Peter Hughes announced the privacy breach today, in relation to a PISA international study…
UK: Personal data breach by police to G4S
Raymond Brown reports: An investigation was launched after private details on a massive scale were sent to controversial contractor G4S. The data breach involving personal information about more than 1,000 ‘backroom’ staff at Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire police happened amid negotiations to privatise services. […] The three forces notified the Information Commissioner’s Office in February…
This week’s e-mail gaffe
This week’s e-mail gaffe involves a law firm in the U.K.: A member of Addleshaw Goddard‘s HR team has mistakenly emailed every trainee’s performance ratings to the entire firm. A junior member of the team sent details of the upcoming trainee seat moves to the firm. But the hapless HR staffer also managed to attach to the…