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Shell staff details leaked to campaign groups

Posted on February 11, 2010 by Dissent

Ed Crooks provides more background on a breach involving Shell employee contact information: The database, from Shell’s internal directory, gives names and telephone numbers for its workforce worldwide, including some home numbers used for business. The e-mail was ostensibly sent by disaffected staff calling for a “peaceful corporate revolution” at the company. The database was…

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Equifax tax forms expose worker Social Security numbers

Posted on February 11, 2010 by Dissent

Elinor Mills reports: An unknown number of current and former employees of credit reporting firm Equifax received W-2 forms in the mail with their Social Security numbers visible through a window on the envelope, CNET has learned. Equifax became aware of the problem on January 19 and informed employees in a letter dated January 27,…

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Customers’ Personal Information Found In Macy’s Dumpster

Posted on February 11, 2010 by Dissent

Jeff Bernthal reports: A surprising find outside the downtown St. Louis Macy’s store. Documents containing personal information including social security numbers. Heather Cole reported on documents blowing in the wind last fall for Missouri Lawyers Weekly. She found open dumpsters outside the downtown Macy’s with papers containing debit card numbers but no names of any…

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Orange overshares in bcc blunder

Posted on February 10, 2010 by Dissent

Bill Ray reports: Orange accidentally shared the email addresses of more than 300 customers yesterday during a bid to find out what they think of the company. The email, passed on to us by several readers, suggests the recipient might like to reply with their thoughts about how customers keep in touch with the operator,…

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NZ: ACC says sorry for botched mailout

Posted on February 9, 2010 by Dissent

Rachel Tiffen reports: ACC [Accident Compensation Corporation] has apologised “unreservedly” to thousands of businesses and individuals whose private information about workplace injuries was sent to the wrong companies. The corporation sends out 15,000 individual reports each month and yesterday 2000 were mailed to the wrong businesses. In a statement issued last night, general manager Dr…

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Nl: Notary puts clients passports online

Posted on February 9, 2010 by Dissent

Karin Spaink provides an English summary of a recent breach reported in Dutch media: Veilingnotaris.nl tries to list all online real estate auctions. Apparently their site is badly protected: Google has indexed quite some client information, including passport copies, notary deeds, registry information etcetera. The published information concerned both recent and old auctions. Internet Notaries,…

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