There’s been an exposure breach involving Spotsylvania school employees’ personal information. Yesterday, Fredericksburg.com reported: The division began mailing letters to employees about the security breach this afternoon and expects to have all of them mailed by tomorrow morning, schools spokeswoman Rene Daniels said in response to my inquiry. An employee discovered the problem on Dec….
Category: Exposure
NY: Bronx cops in file flub
Kirstan Conley reports: Bronx cops disposed of dozens of sensitive files by tossing them in the garbage outside the 40th Precinct station house, where they were fair game for local Dumpster divers. The files — including at least one domestic-violence report, stolen property records, criminal complaints and mug shots — were found yesterday by a…
Some members of Anonymous go after neo-Nazi organizations and sites (update1)
OK, first I noticed a paste on Pastebin.htm on December 30 by a “guest” that simply listed domain names: www.deutsche-stimme.de www.ds-versand.de altermedia-deutschland.info flutopfer.npd-sachsen.de gfp-netz.de naweko.de nein-zum-euro.de npd-bremen.de npd-sachsen.de stehar.com tinten-sachse.de www.frank-franz.de www.holger-apfel.de www.naweko.de www.nno-tv.de www.npd-dresden.de www.npd-fraktion-burgenlandkreis.de www.npd-fraktion-sachsen.de www.npd-kronach.de www.npd-leipzig.net www.npd-nol.de www.npd-sachsen.de www.npd-weissenfels.de NPD is the extreme right-wing party in Germany, so the paste caught my…
Credit Mutuel Units Inspected by French Data Protection Watchdog
Heather Smith reports: Two Credit Mutuel-CIC units were inspected by France’s data protection authority following a data system failure reported on Dec. 28 by weekly newspaper Canard Enchaine, the Paris-based watchdog said today. The Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertes searched an information-technology unit in Strasbourg, France, and a newspaper belonging to the bank in…
United flyer finds dozens of passengers’ info online
Keli Rabon reports: Anna Culina just wanted to check her miles on United Airline’s mobile website, but instead, she ended up with a whole lot more. “I was navigating around activity and statements, and each time I navigated around to a different area, I pulled up someone else’s information,” Culina said. Culina found the personal…
AU: Telstra BigPond customer details exposed online
Mitchell Bingemann reports: TELSTRA has been stung by another embarrassing privacy breach after the email addresses and phone numbers of more than a thousand of its BigPond customers were made accessible online. In what appears to be a repeat of another security compromise for Telstra, an online spreadsheet containing customer names, email addresses and details…