The University of Windsor Finance Department mistakenly sent about 650 income tax slips to the wrong people, meaning personal information, including social insurance numbers, ended up in someone else’s mailbox. […] “I received two envelopes. Both were addressed to me so I opened them both,” said Kennedy. “One had all of my information in it,…
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UK: University of York leaks private details of entire student body
The University of York’s student publication, Nouse, blows the whistle on a breach at the university involving exposure of student information: On a student enquiry screening function enabled on the website, and open to the general public, the private details of any registered student were made freely accessible. This included all their personal details such…
Thousands in Europe Faced Theft by Phuket ATM ‘Skim Scam’ Gang
Pathomporn Kaenkrachang reports: Four tourists from Romania have been accused of perpetrating an ATM credit card scam that stretched from London to Latvia and on to Thailand, delivering them 100 million baht and involving the theft of about 7000 credit card details. The four appeared today at Phuket’s Tourist Police HQ. One, Bogdan Constantin Ene,…
Bank detains customer after his account was used for N3m fraud
A news report from The Nation in Nigeria tells the sad tale of a customer of BankPHB in Nigeria and how he was the victim of rogue bank employees who used his bank account for fraudulent purposes. When the customer tried – repeatedly – to get his account sorted out with bank officials, he wound…
UK: Prison for Four Who Ran Ghostmarket.net
Jeremy Kirk reports the final chapter in a case first noted on this blog last August and updated in November: Four men who ran what U.K. police say was the largest English-language criminal forum for selling stolen credit card numbers and the tools to steal data were imprisoned for a combined total of more than…
Kr: Customers’ Information of Five-Star Hotel Exposed on Google
As the issue of privacy continues to become an ever increasing cause of concern in this technological world the personal information of guests staying at a group of luxury hotels in Korea has been found on Google. According to media reports Friday, customers’ information at the Ambassador Hotel Group, including names, birth dates, e-mail addresses,…