Andy Banker reports: Thousands of abandoned documents, full of people’s personal information, were in an O’Fallon, Missouri, driveway Tuesday, along with a mess that included a recliner, an old bedroom set, TV, and dinner table. There were stacks of mortgage documents with people’s social security numbers, bank accounts, addresses, and phone numbers, sitting right out…
Category: Exposure
Follow-up: Kinetic Concepts’ notification to employees
Earlier this month I linked to a media report about a breach at Kinetic Concepts involving an email attachment containing personal info on employees. A copy of their notification to affected employees is now available on the website of the New Hampshire Attorney General.
Saint Anselm College alumni mailing exposed SSN
Back in May, Saint Anselm College notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that a spring 2010 mailing of its alumni newsletter had inadvertently exposed SSN of 122 New Hampshire residents on the mailing labels. This month, Saint Anselm notified the office that it seemed that the exposure problem had occurred as early as its…
Shreveport oversight causes security concerns
Brittany Pieper reports that the City of Shreveport, Louisiana left lots of personal and sensitive information lying around when they held a pre-demolition auction of furnishings at the City Hall Annex building. People found boxes of records with breath alcohol tests, signatures, SSNs, addresses, ID cards, and a whole lot more. KSLA News 12 asked…
Cyber security challenge organisers in email privacy blunder
John Leyden reports: Organisers of the UK’s cyber security challenge committed an embarrassing email blunder by inadvertently revealing the email addresses of everyone who entered a forensics challenge to each other. A single challenge registration confirmation was CCed to everyone who entered, handing over a complete email list in the process. Read more in The Register.
Follow-up: Lawsuit filed over horrific student records breach
Kathianne Boniello reports that a parent and her child are suing the New York City Department of Education after the child’s high school dumped hundreds of unshredded confidential student records onto the street last year. The incident was covered on this site here. The School for the Physical City filled a Dumpster with 15 cardboard…