Hannah Furness reports: More than 100,000 civil servants and public sector workers have been warned their personal details may have been stolen in a bid to defraud the Government. Members of the Civil Service Sports Club, which has 130,000 members nationwide, have been told their names, addresses, dates of birth and National Insurance numbers have…
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Oops! Taliban Reveal Identities of Their Mailing List Members
There are e-mail gaffes and then there are e-mail gaffes. Muhammed Lila reports that a Taliban spokesperson exposed more than 400 recipients on a Taliban e-mail list: The names were disclosed in an email by Qari Yousuf Ahmedi, an official Taliban spokesperson, on Saturday. The email was a press release he received from the account…
Personal Info Of Hundreds Of Philly Voters Dumped On Street Corner
Bruce Gordon reports: The privacy of hundreds upon hundreds of Philadelphia voters may have been violated this week, when piles of documents used in “Get Out The Vote” calls were left sitting on a Philly street corner. A woman who identified herself only as “Eileen” showed us cell phone pictures of documents piled in, on…
AU: Website glitch exposes Dodo customer details
Ben Grubb reports: A security flaw exposed up to 500 Dodo Power & Gas customer statements on its website on Friday. Details included customer names, addresses, power usage details and account numbers. The flaw was revealed when a Dodo customer contacted Fairfax to say she was able to change the randomly generated eight-digit number of…
Personal data routinely leaked from Obama and Romney websites
Both the Barack Obama and Mitt Romney campaigns swear that their websites don’t collect personally identifiable information from visitors, but a new report reveals that neither candidate can really back that claim up. Responding to the New York Times for an article published just this week, representatives from both presidential contenders say no private information…
Follow-up: Victim of Port Mann security breach speaks out
More on the Port Mann Bridge breach noted previously on this blog where someone with a criminal record managed to get a job by false pretenses that enabled him to acquire customers’ personal information, including credit card numbers: One of the Port Mann Bridge users whose tolling accounts were allegedly handled by a convicted fraud…