An alert reader from north of the border sends in this one. Ellen Roseman reports: Ava Wong had her identity stolen in 2008. She spent the next year trying to get her financial life in order again. So, she was upset to log into her RBC banking account last month and find someone else’s confidential…
Category: Exposure
KY: JCPS Mails Students’ Tests to Wrong Addresses
After Jefferson County Public Schools mailed around 6,500 ACT Explore 8th grade test scores to wrong addresses, the district is now asking parents to shred tests they’ve received that contain another child’s score. JCPS officials recognized the error on Wednesday after parents called, wondering why they were mailed scores for children who weren’t theirs. “Parents…
eBay merchant exposes hundreds of Aussies
Ben Grubb reports: Beware when shopping online this holiday season as at least one eBay merchant has been found to have exposed the personal information of hundreds of Australians on the internet. Detailed information about a particular eBay seller’s customer transactions – including their phone numbers, postal addresses, email addresses and what a customer purchased…
Update: Big Pond plugs data leak
Stephen Cauchi and Georgia Wilkins report: Telstra has scrambled to reconnect its BigPond internet services after a privacy breach that leaked personal customer information shut down its system for 24 hours. Up to 1 million BigPond users could not use email and other online services while the problem was being fixed. About 60,000 passwords were…
Telstra internal website made public, releasing account details of up to one million customers
Michelle Ainsworth reports: Account details of up to one million Telstra customers have possibly been breached after an internal website was made public. The website listed Telstra customers on bundle plans and included their names, plan types, contact they had had with Telstra customer service and in some instances their account passwords, the Herald Sun…
UK: Probe launched as confidential files appear on Camden Council’s website
The Town Hall is facing a probe by the country’s data protection watchdog after a New Journal investigation found files containing strictly confidential personal information were freely accessible on Camden Council’s website. We alerted the Town Hall to the dangers of publishing uncensored licensing applications on Monday after opening and downloading dozens of the forms….