Garth Hilderman reports: More than 1,000 pages of campus crime reports, complete with the names, addresses and even photos of some victims, were dumped in a recycling bin at Red River College, a privacy breach the college calls “very serious.” The college has referred the matter to the provincial Ombdusman office to determine the severity…
Category: Exposure
Tennessee mailing error results in employees canceling insurance and scrambling to monitor their credit
AP reports: The state of Tennessee is offering credit protection to nearly 2,000 employees who canceled their health or dental insurance after officials mailed out their personal information in October. Each mailing included a certificate containing the information of the recipient and three other letters aimed at other members of the plan. State officials say…
UK: South Central SHA data breaches affect over 1,800 staff
Health Service Journal calls attention to two breaches that occurred in October involving the South Central Strategic Health Authority (SHA) of NHS South of England. According to the December board minutes: The [first] incident occurred in the human resources team in October 2011. The hard copy personnel file was removed from the secure human resources…
The College of New Jersey reports vulnerability might have exposed 12,815 student job applicants’ information
David Karas reports: Officials at The College of New Jersey this week reported an unintentional data breach in the On-Campus Student Employment System, an in-house system designed to store information about students applying for on-campus jobs. According to a notice sent to students and faculty Monday, a vulnerability in the system was identified Nov. 2…
Update: Lone Star Steakhouse settles complaint by Kansas AG; management firm pay $200,000 for improperly dumping employee records
Back in March, I covered a breach involving Lone Star Business Solutions. Now KWCH reports that as a result of their news coverage and a resulting investigation by the Attorney General Derek Schmidt, LS Management, the management firm for Lone Star Steakhouse, will pay a fine of $200,000 – the largest consumer protection fine ever…
United Nations: usernames, passwords, and e-mail addresses leaked on the Internet (update2)
The hacker who self-identifies as “TriCk – TeaMp0isoN” has posted a statement on Pastebin about the United Nations with a leak of some of their data. The hack was announced on Twitter by @_TeaMp0isoN about 9 hours ago. A prefactory statement to the data dump says: A Senate for Global Corruption, the United Nations sits to…