Galen Moore reports: …. According to Canada’s privacy commissioner, Jennifer Stoddart, the breaches affected laptop computers and flash drives, and compromised sensitive information including Social Insurance Numbers, and health card and passport numbers; academic transcripts; banking information and tax records. An audit conducted by Stoddard’s office examined 149 data storage devices marked for resale, and…
Category: Exposure
Centaur website reveals guests’ personal info
Shilpa Phadnis reports: The Centaur Hotels’ website, centaurhotels.com, appears to have compromised personal information of its hotel guests, in what seems to be a case of poor internet security protocols implemented by the site. This allowed website visitors on Saturday to obtain and view details of passports, driving licences, pan numbers, credit cards, and other…
When her data was exposed, Kennedale woman cried foul — and the state listened
Dave Lieber reports: Let’s all stand and cheer for Judy Yacio, a retired Kennedale school principal who struck a blow to stop identity theft. She exposed a flaw in the Teacher Retirement System of Texas that could make it easy for identity thieves to steal her personal banking information. […] After Yacio switched the bank…
(follow-up) UK: Surrey Council boss admits confidence breach ‘mistakes’
Surrey County Council’s chief executive has addressed staff about the ‘irony’ of it picking up a record fine for ‘shocking’ breaches of privacy after he had praised them for their performance. CEO David McNulty made the comments to staff on June 8 in an internal email titled Be Sure You’re Secure. The email followed the…
Part of LulzSec data dump is from Australian entities
In an earlier blog entry tonight, I noted that 12,000 of 62,000 email addresses and passwords posted by LulzSec today came from WriterSpace.com. It appears that the dump also contained a number of people in Australia. ABC News in Australia reports: The group, which took down the CIA website yesterday, has leaked 62,000 worldwide email…
Ie: DCU apologises for data protection breach
Dublin City University has issued an apology after the office that deals with its Intra work placements flooded hundreds of inboxes with unwanted emails. The office subscribed a number of businesses and employers to an email list without permission. An email was sent out asking employers – many of whom had taken on DCU graduates…