As if we needed yet another reminder of why you need to ensure ex-employees can no longer access the network, the Baltimore Sun reports: It happened one day last year, as more than a dozen board members of a Baltimore substance abuse center had gathered around a conference room. The CEO was giving a PowerPoint…
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MO: Union pension mailer reveals recepient’s Social Security numbers
Matthew Hathaway reports: A local union pension fund sent mailers that included Social Security numbers of the recipients printed on the outside of the envelopes, according to members of the Carpenters District Council of Greater St. Louis and Vicinity who received the letter. The mailer states that there are more than 24,000 beneficiaries of the…
More breaches reported to Maryland that we didn’t know about
In response to a Freedom of Information request, Maryland Attorney General’s Office sent me the 14 breach reports they received in March of this year. Of the 14, six were never previously reported on this site and four others gave us breach reports for incidents that we were aware of but had few details for:…
InPsych app is a privacy threat – psychologist
Psychologist John Grohol of Psych Central posts this warning on his site: I’m off to attend the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association (APA) in San Diego today, but before I go, I do have two APA-related news items to post. The first is about the APA’s social networking application it deployed for this…
WI: Former jailer to be sentenced in credit card theft case
From the I-didn’t-even-come-close-to-getting-away-with-it dept: A former jailer will soon find out whether she will spend some time behind bars. Michelle Arellano was charged in Chippewa County with stealing a credit card, belonging to an inmate, then racking up $2,400 in charges. […] Monday, Arellano pled no contest to a felony charge of identity theft to…
Tuesday’s batch of newly uncovered breaches
In response to my Freedom of Information request, I received a batch of 15 breach reports received in February by the Maryland Attorney General’s Office. Of the 15, five of them were news to me: M&T Bank reported that an individual walked into their Pikesville branch and while talking with a branch manager, removed another…