The Glazers’ reputation at Manchester United is set to take another battering after it emerged the club are suing one supporter who took action to oppose the under-fire owners. Lawyers acting for United filed a writ at the High Court accusing Thomas McKenna of damaging their business by publishing names and addresses of hundreds of their…
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Maryville Academy says sensitive data potentially compromised
The Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Tribune and WGN News are reporting a breach involving records on nearly 3900 children held by Illinois childcare agency, the Maryville Academy. A notice on Maryville Academy‘s web site says: Notice Notice To All Current and Former Maryville Academy Residents and Clients Who Received Services Between 1992 and January 25, 2011: Maryville Academy has…
OR: Credit card info stolen from Portland Center for the Performing Arts website
Marty Hughley reports: Credit card numbers and other personal information from several hundred Portland Center for the Performing Arts customers have been stolen due to a breach of website security, the center announced Friday. Ticket purchases for PCPA events, which are handled exclusively through Ticketmaster, were not affected. The problem was with the PCPA’s own…
UK: Confidential staff data sent in email by mistake
Katie Clark reports: Personal details of 200 staff from a Christchurch-based housing group were mistakenly emailed to a member of the public. Staff payroll information including names, addresses and dates of birth, as well as the National Insurance numbers of employees at Spectrum Housing were mistakenly emailed out by a member of staff two and…
All of East Chicago Public Library’s records on stolen drives
Wow. Steve Zabroski reports: East Chicago – Indiana State Police arrived at the East Chicago Public Library on Friday afternoon to investigate the reported theft of computer hard drives holding all the library’s records, but the library’s former director said nobody told him about missing equipment. Manuel “Manny” Montalvo was abruptly fired by library trustees…
UK: Computer with details of hundreds of children stolen in youth club burglary
A computer containing the names, ages, addresses and medical conditions of hundreds of children has been stolen in a raid on a youth club.Details of up to 700 youths are stored on the computer belonging to Sparks Project in Courtway Road, Orchard Park, north Hull. Tony Fee, who launched the youth project in 2006, has…