Mike De Souza reports: The House of Commons has launched an internal probe in the wake of an “administrative error” that resulted in hundreds of personal income tax forms mailed to the wrong addresses, Canwest News Service has learned. The glitch affected 697 former staffers of members of Parliament in 2009 who received a T4…
Category: Exposure
State leads investigation of sheriff’s deputy alleged to have taken reports, data
Elizabeth Larson reports: A Lake County Sheriff’s deputy is the subject of an ongoing investigation involving the alleged theft of documents and massive amounts of protected data, surveillance of fellow deputies and allegations that he posted an investigative report on the Internet because of political motivations. Dariush Michael Morshed, 48, is at the center of…
CO: Littleton Pizza Hut employees angry over personal info breach
John Romero of KDVR reports: Employees of a local Pizza Hut franchise are outraged after personal documents, including employment applications, social security numbers, and tax information, are left at car wash on Federal Boulevard. FOX31 viewer Melvin Burris found the documents at the Road Runner Car Wash at Belleview and Federal when he stopped to…
More info on the Brown University incident report
The Brown University breach, which I had just included in another blog entry this morning, now has some additional details available. Julia Kim of The Brown Daily Herald reports that Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island accidentally sent paper records of more than 500 Brown employees and their family members to another subscriber company…
NMSU acts to address limited 2006 exposure of student personal data
Amanda L. Husson reports: The names and Social Security numbers of about 300 New Mexico State University students were inadvertently leaked through file-sharing software last fall, the university revealed Wednesday. Letters were mailed to the affected students last week. Shaun Cooper, NMSU associate vice president and chief information officer, said the risk of identity theft…
(update) Argos credit-card scandal worsens
Fresh doubts have been raised over the online security of high street retailer Argos, following a PC Pro investigation. Yesterday, we revealed that Argos was sending customers’ unencrypted credit-card numbers and security codes in order confirmation emails, potentially exposing them to online fraud. Now it’s emerged that those very same confirmation emails contain a web…