Nathan Toohey and Alina Lobzina report: The Vedomosti newspaper has reported that more than 1 million of mobile provider MTS’ users have had their personal data published on the Zhiltsy.net website. A resident of the town of Ufa, Fedor Ponomarev, alerted the newspaper to the massive data leak. The data originated from 2006 and after…
Category: Exposure
Binned PCs were stuffed with MoD and Sun staffers’ privates
Here we go – again. John Leyden reports: Security researchers found personal records of Sun newspaper and MoD staff on the hard drives of discarded or resold computers. The study, The ghosts from the machines: A history of 10 years of carelessly discarded data, found that both businesses and consumers are getting rid of old PCss without…
CA: Former employees of bankrupt aluminum plant put at risk when their records left behind for scavengers
Going bankrupt must suck, but screwing your former employees by putting them at risk of ID theft is just not an okay way to handle bankruptcy. J.N. Sbranti reports: It was a filthy job, but 40 workers spent Tuesday picking up papers — including confidential employee records — that had been blowing around an abandoned…
Anonymous tipster claims Internet security breach at Pan American Games
Lori Ewing reports: Journalists covering the Pan American Games, including about two dozen Canadians, could be at risk of identity theft or fraud. Personal information about the media is accessible through the Games website, according to an anonymous tipster who emailed reporters Monday. The tipster, identified by the pseudonym Galileo Trueman, emailed reporters claiming he…
‘Contract worker stole all Israelis’ personal information’ (updated)
Okay, this is not a great headline to wake up to. The Jerusalem Post reports: Information was used to create searchable database with sensitive information of every Israeli, living and deceased; computer technician put the database on the Internet for anyone in the world to access. A contract worker from the Ministry of Labor and…
El Reg in SHOCK email address BLUNDER
Say it ain’t so, Joe! The Register has disclosed their own data breach – an e-mail gaffe: Between 8:58 and 10:20 this morning we sent an email to 3,521 of you that contained the names and email addresses of 46,524 of our readers. Obviously, this was an error. The two-stage send process that is the…