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…
Category: Exposure
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…
FL: Valencia College apologizes after student personal information exposed online by contractor error
Valencia College is apologizing after a mistake allowed the personal information of 9,000 current and prospective students to be posted online. The school said an Excel spreadsheet with the students’ names, address, date of birth, and student IDs was listed online on a password-protected website. Eventually, it lost its password protection, which means anyone could…
Home security camera feeds posted to web
Emma Woollacott reports: Images of children in their bedrooms have been freely available on the web, following a security breach by webcam company Trendnet. The breach affects thousands of feeds, and was caused by an error in code introduced nearly two years ago. “It is Trendnet’s understanding that video from select Trendnet IP cameras may…
Tablet snafu: Motorola says not all data wiped from refurbished devices
Lorene Yue reports: Usually, when passwords and personal information are exposed, it’s because someone hacked a company’s not-so-secure system. Motorola, however, managed to put people’s info at risk without such malfeasance when it failed to wipe the memory of a batch of refurbished Xooms. The tablets in question were sold by Woot.com between October and…
PA: Printing Company Accidentally Releases SSN’s In Derry Twp.
WGAL reports that Security Savings Systems of New Cumberland mailed 1099-G forms to taxpayers that exposed others’ Social Security numbers: On Tuesday, taxpayers in Derry Township received sheets of paper in the mail with the information of two taxpayers on it. These 1099-G forms list the amount of the person’s tax refund that they received…