Laura Ann Sills reports: A WTVM viewer tipped us off to a website that had personal data, including credit card information, about him, and 50 other people. The list was a Google cache with a list of 60 customers of The Loft and Comedy Club in downtown Columbus that purchased tickets at the club from…
Category: Exposure
Lincoln National Life Insurance notifies over 26,000 of breach after user/pass distributed in brochure and on the web
Through its attorneys, Lincoln Life Insurance notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of a breach affecting over 26,000 clients of Lincoln National Life Insurance and Lincoln Life and Annuity Company of New York. On February 26, the company was notified by a vendor that a username and password combination reserved for authorized brokers and…
Gambling site glitch leads to privacy breach for some users of online B.C. casino
The Canadian Press reports that the B.C. Lottery Corporation denies that there was any hacking involved in a breach that allowed some online gamblers access to others’ information: The Crown corporation added casino-style games such as blackjack and poker to its PlayNow.com site last week, and the service soon crashed as users choked the company’s…
NDP: B.C.’s new online gambling website may have been hacked (updated)
Vivian Luk reports: British Columbians’ personal information may have been compromised when the government’s online gambling website, PlayNow.com, crashed last week, according to the New Democratic Party. PlayNow, the first government-sanctioned online casino in North America, was shut down only hours after it was launched last Thursday. The B.C Lottery Corp. said unexpectedly high traffic…
MD: State employee posts nearly 3,000 SSNs online
Liz F. Kay reports: A Maryland Department of Human Resources employee was placed on administrative leave after posting the Social Security numbers and other personal information of nearly 3,000 clients of a state agency on a third-party website, a spokeswoman for the agency said. There’s no evidence that the information was used for identity theft,…
FL: Thousands of personal record files dumped in recycling bin
By Lisa A. Davis and Neil Johnson report: On Sunday morning, Karen and Scott Keith made their monthly stop at the Land O’ Lakes Recycling center to drop off household recycling items. When they looked at the paper bin it was not only full to the point of pushing up the lid, it was practically…