Andrea Peterson and Craig Timberg report: Mistakes in setting up popular office software have sent information about millions of Americans spilling onto the Internet, including Social Security numbers of college students, the names of children in Texas and the ID numbers of intelligence officials who visited a port facility in Maryland. The security problem, researchers say,…
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Obama orders feds to adopt credit-card technology limiting identity theft
Eric Garcia reports: In an effort to combat identify theft, President Obama on Friday signed an executive order requiring government-issued credit cards to use “chip-and-pin” technology. Read more on MarketWatch. You can access the full text of the Executive Order here. It also includes helping ID theft victims remediate more quickly.
AU: Asylum seekers’ personal details stolen in second immigration data breach
As if the first breach affecting asylum seekers wasn’t dangerous enough, Ben Doherty now reports a second breach: The personal details of hundreds of asylum seekers on Nauru have been stolen in a second major data breach within Australia’s immigration detention system. At least two hard drives, not password-protected and containing the personal details of hundreds…
KY: Jefferson Co. deletes sensitive info from records
It took them about 4 years and $400,000, but Jefferson County in Kentucky has purged public documents that are available online of residents’ Social Security numbers and other information that could be used for identify theft. WDRB has the story. Good for them!
NYS Attorney General Schneiderman Announces Multi-state Settlement With TD Bank Over Lost Backup Tapes
Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced a multi-state settlement with TD Bank, N.A. that resolves an inquiry into a 2012 data breach in which 1.4 million files were compromised. The $850,000 settlement requires the bank to reform its practices to help ensure that future incidents do not occur. New York State will receive $114,106.11…
Korea suffers over 106 million privacy breaches in 4 years
Cho Mu-hyun reports: The shocking figure of over 106 million privacy breaches was unveiled by a report of data leaks between 2010 to 2014 filed by the Korea Communication Commission (KCC) to the National Assembly during the yearly government audit of ministries. The figure means that each person has, on average, had his or her…