Jeff Overley of the Orange County Register reports that the state Department of Real Estate wants to suspend or revoke the license of mortgage broker Seaview Financial for dumping 24 cartons containing confidential and detailed financial records on 350 customers in an elementary school’s bins (see photos). The owner, Paul Henry Reed, had denied wrongdoing…
Category: Exposure
LA: Medical records discarded in trash bin
Chrissi Coile of KTBS reports that a large pile of medical records containing x-rays, MRIs, names, and Social Security numbers which were found discarded in Toney’s Eastridge Grocery’s trash bin were put there by Dr. Frederick Knight, who admits that it is not the first time he has done something like that. Police are investigating,…
Comcast passwords leaked onto the Web
Elinor Mills reports: Thousands of user names and passwords for Comcast customers was removed from document sharing Web site Scribd on Monday, two months after it was posted there. Scribd removed the list of more than 8,000 passwords and user names after being contacted by Brad Stone at The New York Times. Stone wrote that…
Japanese court orders ISP to reveal file-leaker’s ID
From Daily Yomiuri Online: The Tokyo District Court has ordered an Internet service provider to reveal the name and address of a person who used file-swapping software to spread leaked private information on the Internet of about 110,000 Kanagawa prefectural high school students in fiscal 2006, it has been learned. IBM Japan Ltd., which had…
Binghamton U. exploring criminal charges against student reporters
If you’re standing in a public space in a state university building, and you look up and wonder what a door from what appears to be a mezzanine leads to, and you climb up to find out, open an unmarked door that has tape over the lock, and then take photographs of records containing personal…
UK: New Forest District Council blunder exposes residents’ details online
At least 200 Hampshire residents applying for permission for a new extension, wall or fence learned that their names, home addresses, email details, phone numbers, and signatures had been posted on the New Forest District Council’s web site despite the council’s policy of redacting such information. The breach was discovered by The Daily Echo. Read…