CBC News reports: A Winnipeg Conservative MP’s recent email is raising privacy concerns, as it displays the email addresses of more than 1,500 recipients. Bateman’s Bulletin, an electronic newsletter sent by Winnipeg South Centre MP Joyce Bateman’s office on Friday evening, did not conceal the names or email addresses of those who received it. Bateman’s…
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Personal information stolen from 2 nonprofits
Christian Cazares reports that burglaries at the American Heart Association and Olive Crest offices in Las Vegas resulted in the theft of personal information stored on laptops. Read more on KVVU. “
IEEE leaks 100,000 members’ usernames and plain-text passwords (update3)
Seen on Slashdot, Radu Dragusin writes: IEEE suffered a data breach which I discovered on September 18. For a few days I was uncertain what to do with the information and the data. Yesterday I let them know, and they fixed (at least partially) the problem. The usernames and passwords kept in plaintext were publicly…
Stolen laptop contained data from Health Care for All and Boston Teacher’s Union
It just takes a moment. On July 17, an independent contractor for Database Designs Associates left his backpack in a relative’s nursing home room when he was asked by staff to step out for a minute. When he returned, the backpack was gone. In it was a laptop containing data from Health Care for All and…
30-plus laptop computers stolen from Jacksonville’s Wounded Warrior project HQ
Dan Scanlan reports: At least 33 laptop computers and iPads were stolen in late July from the Wounded Warrior Project’s third-floor office at 4899 Belfort Road in Jacksonville. They may contain personal information on “some, but not all of our former employees,” according to a letter sent out Sept. 7 by Wounded Warrior Executive Director…
ERIC attempts to purge research database of SSN and other PII
ERIC, a clearinghouse and database for education research articles, has this notice linked from their home page: Dear ERIC Community, In early August we discovered that sensitive personally identifiable information appeared in some full text documents contained in the ERIC collection. Specifically, social security numbers and other highly sensitive information were found in multiple documents…