It’s a local bank you trust with your money and your personal information. But the M&T branch in Rodgers Forge didn’t shelter all of some peoples’ secrets. As ABC2 News Investigator Joce Sterman discovered, some of the documents that contain them didn’t get shredded, they got dumped. […] What the bank did was dump the…
Category: Exposure
Personal documents found in Palm Springs dumpster
WPBF reports that personnel files containing “Social Security cards, tax papers, driver’s licenses, copies, peoples’ information, home IDs, everything” were found in a dumpster. Some of the documents had the CLP Skilled Trade Solutions logo on it — a company located right next to the dumpster. Many of the personnel files appeared to be from…
City admits lapse in data release
Sewell Chan reports: On Tuesday, New York City rolled out the next phase of its NYC BigApps competition, an initiative that will supply local programmers and developers with a stockpile of raw municipal data sets to build applications for the Web and mobile phones. But in what appears to have been an accidental data breach,…
Confirmed: Thousands of Hotmail passwords leaked online (updated)
Tom Warren reports: Neowin has received information regarding a possible Windows Live Hotmail “hack” or phishing scheme where password details of thousands of Hotmail accounts have been posted online. An anonymous user posted details of the accounts on October 1 at pastebin.com, a site commonly used by developers to share code snippets. The details have…
NY: E-mail error sends out students’ Social Security numbers
Rick Brand reports: Suffolk Community College has agreed to pay a company for the next year to monitor the credit of 300 students whose last names and Social Security numbers were mistakenly listed in an attachment to an e-mail sent to those students last month. Mary Lou Araneo, college vice president, said Sunday there is…
Royal Bank glitch allowed Visa customers to view others’ transactions
Gillian Shaw reports: The Royal Bank says it has fixed a computer security glitch that allowed some of its West Coast Visa customers to view transactions made by other cardholders. Vancouver’s Mike Jagger was checking his RBC Visa statement online when he found himself staring at someone else’s transactions — about $20,000 worth of charges….