A link to a state Web site was shut down Friday after the discovery that the Social Security numbers of hundreds of Iowa’s top business officials and company board members were accessible by the public. The numbers – more than 2,000 in total – appeared primarily in corporation reports made to the Iowa secretary of…
Category: Exposure
Inquiry after passports found in punchbag
The Home Office has launched an “urgent investigation” after two brothers found thousands of scraps of passports, chequebooks and prescription pads in a punchbag [Note: in the U.S., punching bag]. Simon and Richard Coe discovered personal data, including signatures and photos, torn up into thousands of small pieces. Much of the personal information contained in…
MUFJ Nicos loses data on credit card customers
Credit card company Mitsubishi UFJ Nicos Co. said Thursday that it has lost key information on about 197,000 customers but that the data are unlikely to be leaked to unauthorized sources or abused in electronic transactions. […] Mitsubishi UFJ Nicos said an internal investigation revealed the company may have mistakenly discarded the data, which were…
CO: Personal data sent in error to co-workers
The Department of Corrections’ inspector general’s office is investigating the release of the personal financial records of more than 1,000 staff to more than 100 co-workers. The records were sent by e-mail from the DOC payroll office to a total of 103 employees at 5:03 p.m. Friday, said Katherine Sanguinetti, DOC spokeswoman. A payroll employee…
Mortgage records found in KS dumpster
Over the weekend, client records from a defunct Wichita mortgage-brokerage firm wound up in the Dumpster outside the Holiday Inn at Kellogg and Rock Road. The owner of the mortgage business said it was an accident and apologized, vowing to make sure the records are properly shredded. […] The records found at the Holiday Inn…
Dr.InfoSec helps solve school data breach
Although the school district is not named, this sounds like the Fayetteville breach recently reported… On July 29th, as I was following up on a story that flashed across my Twitter stream about 30 certified employees of a school district finding themselves victims of ID theft, I found something that should not have been there….