On July 18, US Airways sent some of its employees a letter informing them that, due to an error by Automatic Data Processing (ADP), their W-2 information was downloadable online by fellow employees. US Airways had been made aware of the problem on June 6, but offered no explanation as to why it took them…
Category: Exposure
Wesley College mistakenly posts private student records online
Nichole Dobo reports: Wesley College published more than a dozen records online that revealed the test scores, grades and written critiques of more than 100 students. The Dover-based private college was not the victim of someone hacking into its system. Instead, the records were posted in 2011 by someone at the school in a folder…
Staff data leaks out of the SEC
Peter Schroeder reports: A serious data breach at the Securities and Exchange Commission transferred personal data about current and former employees into the computer system of another federal agency, a letter sent by the SEC to staff reveals. The July 8 letter, obtained by The Hill, is from Thomas Bayer, the SEC’s chief information officer…
Baltimore DPW contacting employees in privacy breach
WBAL reports: Baltimore City officials are trying to contact city employees whose information was compromised when a box was found tossed on a street containing vital and personal employee information….. Discarded as trash, the box contained vital records of thousands of current and former Baltimore City employees — Social Security numbers, birthdates, driver’s license information…
Tinder’s privacy breach lasted much longer than the company claimed
Zachary Seward reports: Mobile dating app Tinder appears to have exposed the physical location of its users for much longer than a “few hours,” as the company’s chief executive claimed. New evidence suggests the privacy breach dated back at least two weeks. Quartz reported yesterday that the data files sent from Tinder’s servers to its apps had been…
Citi Bike: Customer Credit Cards Exposed
The Wall Street Journal reports: A Citi Bike software glitch accidentally exposed sensitive personal and financial information—including credit card numbers—of more than 1,000 of its account holders, the bike sharing program’s operators wrote in a letter last week to the affected customers. The data breach occurred on April 15, according to a letter sent to…