The lost voter registration binder reported by Elections Alberta was not the only binder lost, it seems. Trish Audette provides the update: Personal information about 453 eligible voters in Edmonton-Strathcona has been lost after an Elections Alberta enumerator misplaced a binder containing the residents’ names and addresses. “She left it on the front porch ……
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CheapTickets.nl database with 715,000 customers’ personal information and 80,000 passport numbers leaky due to “stale” security
The following is via Google’s translation of what Brenno de Winter reported: … leaked CheapTickets.nl a database of 715,000 customers. Attackers did not just names but also tickets and passport numbers. It found a source that reported on condition of anonymity. He discovered that the Windows Server 2003 environment, not all patches were rotated. Because…
‘Contract worker stole all Israelis’ personal information’ (updated)
Okay, this is not a great headline to wake up to. The Jerusalem Post reports: Information was used to create searchable database with sensitive information of every Israeli, living and deceased; computer technician put the database on the Internet for anyone in the world to access. A contract worker from the Ministry of Labor and…
Korean hacker awaiting deportation
A Korean who hacked into a communication company’s database and downloaded data of its 40,000 customers is currently awaiting deportation to Seoul, the Bureau of Immigration said. Shin Un-sun, 37, has been apprehended last October 5 in a popular shopping center in San Juan City by the Philippine National Police Criminal Investigation and Detection Group…
El Reg in SHOCK email address BLUNDER
Say it ain’t so, Joe! The Register has disclosed their own data breach – an e-mail gaffe: Between 8:58 and 10:20 this morning we sent an email to 3,521 of you that contained the names and email addresses of 46,524 of our readers. Obviously, this was an error. The two-stage send process that is the…
AU: Super IT blunder risked $23m contract
Asher Moses reports that the Pillar Administration coding that left First State Super clients’ account information viewable online by simple url manipulation also affected three other superannuation funds and the federal government is delaying a contact it had with Pillar until its security is assured: The federal government has been in daily contact with the…