Joe McGrath reports: The Co-operative Group has issued a public apology after a data error led to the customer details of 83,000 people being published online. Customers of Co-operative Life Planning and Co-operative Wills & Funeral Planning were affected by the error at a third party support services provider which resulted in the customer details…
Category: Exposure
NY: Student Records Found Dumped in Trash Bins
Andrea Day reports that files found tossed in a dumpster behind a strip mall on Long Island were from the Huntington Learning Center in East Northport. The woman who found the files said she couldn’t believe what she found in the trash bins behind the store where she works. The files had ages, work numbers, and…
Cn: Bank details on the web
Jia Feishang reports: China’s biggest search engine, Baidu, removed files containing the personal details of thousands of locals from its document-sharing platform yesterday, following public outcry over the breach of privacy. But although those files were deleted, people’s personal information can easily be found on the Internet. Shanghai Daily has discovered similar documents online, including…
Killeen ISD investigating student records blowing across a field
Andy Ross of the Killeen Daily Herald had some additional information on the Killeen ISD data breach reported earlier this week: KISD spokeswoman Leslie Gilmore confirmed on Tuesday that documents containing Social Security numbers and other student information were found Sunday evening near Old FM 440 and Stan Schlueter Loop in Killeen. […] Gilmore said…
UK: Confidential staff data sent in email by mistake
Katie Clark reports: Personal details of 200 staff from a Christchurch-based housing group were mistakenly emailed to a member of the public. Staff payroll information including names, addresses and dates of birth, as well as the National Insurance numbers of employees at Spectrum Housing were mistakenly emailed out by a member of staff two and…
Divorce papers found in ‘new’ Asus laptop purchased in Singapore
Gareth Halfacree reports: Central Provident Fund statements and divorce documents; these were what Hidayat Sudirman found stored in a 14-inch Asus notebook PC he bought from retailer Newstead Technologies recently at an IT fair. The 25-year-old civil servant discovered 10GB worth of personal data, including tax return forms, belonging to its previous owner. Upset, he…