From LoHud.com, a report involving the city of Rye, New York: City officials are notifying employees that some workers’ Social Security numbers were mistakenly disclosed in response to a Freedom of Information Law request and that the city was seeking legal assurance that the information would not be passed on. City Manager Scott Pickup did…
Category: Exposure
Update: Texas pays for data breach
Kelley Shannon provides an update on one of the biggest breaches in 2011: The taxpayer tab for individual credit monitoring after a data breach in Comptroller Susan Combs’ office has topped $600,000, and Combs’ campaign is paying extra to resolve routine credit glitches in some cases. Though investigations continue into the data exposure revealed in…
UK: Croydon and Norfolk County councils fined by ICO for data breaches
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has served monetary penalties totalling £180,000 to two councils for failing to keep highly sensitive information about the welfare of children secure. Croydon Council has been handed a penalty of £100,000 after a bag containing papers relating to the care of a child sex abuse victim was stolen from a…
UK: Five councils, a youth charity, and a healthcare provider sign undertakings following data breaches
Five councils breached the Data Protection Act by failing to keep people’s personal information secure, Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham, said today: Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council breached the Data Protection Act on four separate occasions during a two month period last year. The breaches included an incident in May when an individual was mistakenly sent…
IN: AG Investigates Cardinal Fitness Dumped Documents
I love when local media report on breaches and the state then investigates. Here’s another example: Deputy Attorney General Chuck Taylor launched an investigation after a Dumpster containing credit card numbers and receipts was found sitting outside a closed Indianapolis fitness center. Viewers first contacted RTV6 when the discarded personal information was found outside of…
AU: St George distributes client emails
Leonie Lamont reports: St George Margin Lending services has shared the email addresses of some 500 of its clients with other clients in a mass email sent out by the bank. A copy of the email, in which the addresses are contained, was sent to BusinessDay by one client. ‘‘Big privacy screw-up: It lists 500…