McAfee is yet to confirm with delegates to its recent Strategic Security Conference that their details were leaked in a bulk email, as reported on iTnews yesterday. […] In an interview on security podcast Risky Business, McAfee’s Asia Pacific President, Steve Redman, didn’t say if the security vendor will disclose the data breach to those whose…
Category: Exposure
Data of soldiers, patients found on P2P
The personal information of 200,000 soldiers and 20,245 hospital patients, along with other critical data from government networks, is being made to the public through peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, according to testimony yesterday at a hearing of the House Government and Oversight Committee. The security breach included data like names, Social Security Numbers, addresses, illnesses, next…
Code Blue: nurses’ details at risk
KIRO 7 investigated a report that 30-40 boxes containing personal information of nurses — “medical records, social security numbers, driver’s licenses, financial records, legal documents, bank records, W2s” — were being dumped in garbage cans of a local spice shop over the past few weeks: The files appear to belong to a company called Code…
McAfee sends out customer details in email
Security vendor McAfee has sent out a bulk email containing the contact details of over 1400 security professionals that attended its recent conference in Sydney. The email revealed demographic data collected during the registration process for the McAfee Strategic Security Summit, held in Sydney on Friday July 17, as well as the full contact details…
Baytown releases banking info for 10,000 by mistake
Baytown officials have notified 10,019 people cited by red light cameras that some of their personal banking information mistakenly was released to a resident who had filed a public information request about the controversial traffic program, Mayor Stephen DonCarlos said Monday. The mayor stressed the resident who received the information has deleted a spreadsheet —…
Liverpool Community College students’s data on internet
The personal data of up to 300 former students of Liverpool Community College was discovered on the internet. The information, which included names, dates of birth and student IDs, was discovered during the course of an ongoing ECHO investigation. It followed accusations the college’s IT department claimed funding for entire courses which did not run…