Bobbi Mlynar reports: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure for ESB Financial officials who this morning announced that a data backup seven years ago had inadvertently been sent to an unauthorized storage source. Marketing Vice President Karen Sommers said that the bank had hired a specialist to work on a special…
Category: Exposure
SC: DHEC notifying clients of personal information breach
Previous coverage on this breach can be found here and here. The S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control continues to notify clients whose personal information was included on improperly discarded DHEC documents, the agency reported today. “We’ve already mailed letters to individuals, but we don’t have complete mailing addresses for a small number of…
Blippy Users’ Credit Card Numbers Exposed in Google Search Results
Blippy’s web site says, “Blippy is a fun and easy way to see and discuss what everyone’s buying.” It may also be a fun and easy way for identity thieves to get your credit card number. Jennifer van Grove reports: Sharing your credit card and online purchases with friends on the web sounds risky and…
Telstra confirms customer data breach
Ben Grubb reports: Telstra has patched a data breach on its business website that had the potential to reveal personal information, such as date of birth, of 700 customers. Telstra confirmed to ZDNet Australia yesterday afternoon that the only details that could be sighted without the need to log-in were the name, address and account…
Photocopier Hard Drive Exposes Tommy Bahamas Restaurant
Michael Rey reports: In just one day the CBS affiliate station KPHO in Phoenix was able to replicate the type of results of our investigation into the documents saved on the hard drives of digital copiers. […] No surprise that they found something. A lot of somethings. This time the sensitive documents were from a…
Police data on copiers causes city to scramble
Brian Meyer and Jay Rey report that the city of Buffalo is scrambling in the aftermath of a CBS report that confidential data was found on copier hard drives that were up for sale at a warehouse: Stored on one of the hard drives were details involving domestic-violence complaints along with a list of wanted…