Jackson National Life Insurance recently notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that on April 12, 2011, an email error resulted in a file being mailed to the wrong broker-deal. The file contained March 2011 data, including names, policy numbers, policy values, transaction dates, and amounts. The file did not include any Social Security numbers…
Category: Exposure
NZ: Labour Leaks — How I did it
While LulzSec has been making child’s play of Sony’s security, a blogger named Cameron Slater (WhaleOil) has been embarrassing the heck out of the National Labour Party in New Zealand. In the last two days, he has written more about their breach mentioned previously on this blog: Labour and their proxy bloggers have been telling a…
St. Louis University student information containing Social Security numbers found discarded in alley
Ann Rubin reports: Documents with the personal information of dozens of former St. Louis University students were littered near a dumpster in a back alley. How did they get there and why weren’t they shredded? The university is searching for answers. NewsChannel 5 received a tip Monday from someone who saw the paperwork discarded late…
UK: Metro Bank in schoolboy email error snafu
John Leyden reports: Metro Bank, the newly established UK retail bank, has irked its customers with a schoolboy email error. The latest marketing missive from the bank was sent using all the email addresses in to To: field instead of using the bcc (blind carbon copy) field. In the process, the bank disclosed the email…
(update) NZ: National admits Labour data breach – but denies passing names to Whaleoil
NZPA and NBR staff report the latest in the Labour Party donor list breach reported on this blog last night: The National Party has admitted exploiting a security hole in the Labour Party website but denies passing data to a right-wing blogger who plans to release the names of Labour Party donors. The Privacy Commissioner…
NZ: Labour apologizes over data breach (update1)
The New Zealand Press Association reports: The Labour Party has apologised to donors, after a right-wing blogger said he would release their personal details following what the party called a malicious breach of its website. In an email sent to donors yesterday, party secretary Chris Flatt said an investigation was launched after the discovery of…