SOKENDAI issued the following public apology on September 1: We regret to inform that we have found the personal information appeared in the department chairs meeting materials was temporally accessible on the Internet. The reason this occurred was that the meeting materials were uploaded to the wrong place in High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)…
Category: Exposure
UK: Children’s case files found in second-hand furniture shop
From the ICO: The Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration (SCRA) breached the Data Protection Act by failing to keep sensitive information about the welfare of young people secure in two separate incidents, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The first incident happened in September last year when nine case files were mistakenly left in a…
Email Misdirected in Switch to Gmail
Julia L. Ryan reports: During the transfer of Harvard @college email accounts to new Google hosted accounts, a handful of students received emails from individuals who share their surname, raising privacy concerns for some who chose to switch email systems. Thousands of students have successfully accessed their new Google hosted @college email accounts, and fewer…
UK: Hays Discloses RBS Pay Deals in Email Gaffe
Mark Kleinman reports: The recruitment specialist Hays is at the centre of an embarrassing gaffe today after one of its employees distributed an email disclosing the remuneration of thousands of contractors working for the state-backed Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). I have learnt that a Hays employee yesterday inadvertently forwarded a message showing the pay…
Lincoln Financial Group notifies 91,763 enrollees that programming error may have exposed their Social Security Numbers
For the second time in as many months, Lincoln National Life Insurance Company and Lincoln Life & Annuity Company of New York have notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of a security breach. By letter dated August 15, the company’s attorneys reported that due to a programming error that existed in the database’s search…
(follow-up) TX Comptroller’s breach: few sign up for credit monitoring
Barry Harrell has a follow-up on the Texas Comptroller’s breach that affected 3.5 million Texans. I was interested to read that 100,000 people signed up for the offered credit protection monitoring, which is less than 3% of those offered it – at a cost to the state of $600,480. The state had originally offered those…