On April 29, 2013, the Belgian Privacy Commission announced that it referred a data breach case involving The National Belgian Railway Company to the Brussels Public Prosecutor. The data breach, which occurred in December 2012, resulted in the 1.46 million sets of customer data being made publicly available online. The Privacy Commission investigated the case…
Category: Exposure
TN: Mayor’s donation check among records found in dumpster
Andy Wise reports: The director of an adult literacy charity is trying to figure out how the personal information of former associates and donors, including Memphis Mayor AC Wharton, were piled up inside the charity’s dumpster. “It absolutely should not have happened,” said Kevin Dean, executive director of Literacy Mid-South, based in Cooper-Young. “It was…
Etsy exposes sellers’ real names in error – again
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…
‘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…