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….
Category: Exposure
Arlington trash bin yields sensitive documents
Jim Douglas reports: A startling discovery in a trash bin has residents in one Arlington neighborhood angry. They want to know who tossed out dozens of sensitive, personal files linked to their homebuilder. [….] They appeared to be sales documents from K. Hovnanian Homes, a major builder. “I grabbed one of the folders and seen…
Soldiers’ Data Still Being Downloaded Overseas, Firm Says
Ellen Nakashima reports: The personal data of tens of thousands of U.S. soldiers — including those in the Special Forces — continue to be downloaded by unauthorized computer users in countries such as China and Pakistan, despite Army assurances that it would try to fix the problem, according to a private firm that monitors cybersecurity….
Probe Targets Archives’ Handling of Data on 70 Million Vets
Ryan Singel reports: The inspector general of the National Archives and Records Administration is investigating a potential data breach of tens of million of records about U.S. military veterans, after the agency sent a defective hard drive back to its vendor for repair and recycling without first destroying the data. At issue is a hard…
Oops! Mizzou sells phones without wiping memory
Jim Salter reports: Mike Bellman got more than he bargained for when he purchased a box of old cell phones from the University of Missouri athletics department. Bellman bought the cell phones earlier this year at a university surplus sale with the intent of reselling them for parts. He paid $190 for 25 old cell…
Update: NM agencies investigate found files
As an update to an incident previously reported, Gerald Garner Jr. reports: After learning that a handful of sensitive documents had been “discarded” in a local dumpster, Socorro County and county housing authority officials launched an investigation into the matter. In a joint agency press release — issued Monday, Sept. 28 — officials contend the…