Mike Lyons reports that a mailing error by Wells Fargo in Florida exposed customers’ bank account information to each other. Social Security numbers were not involved, but bank account numbers, balances, and transactions were. Ugh. Update: This may be a regional or national problem, as other parts of the country are also reporting complaints from…
Category: U.S.
IA: Inmate church says identities were stolen
A United Methodist congregation made up of inmates at the Iowa Correctional Institute for Women in Mitchellville said an Indianola woman and former inmate used its volunteers’ personal information to steal 40 identities. Women at the Well United Methodist Church said Shelley Bridges, 37, obtained victims’ personal information, including Social Security numbers and birth dates,…
SAISD website exposes students’ personal info (updated)
Lindsay Kastner reports: Confidential information about dozens of San Antonio Independent School District students was exposed on the Internet, apparently for months, and officials were scrambling Friday to repair the security breach. A Google search by a San Antonio Express-News reader who was checking out an unfamiliar phone number brought up the district’s “Potential Dropout…
SEC Warns Staff Their Stocks Data Was Exposed (Update 1)
From the heeding-their-own-advice dept.: The Securities and Exchange Commission is warning staffers that their personal brokerage account information may have been compromised, after it uncovered security flaws with an ethics compliance program.%
SEC guidance about coming clean about data breaches
Emma Woollacott reports: The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has ordered companies to disclose security breaches, following a year in which several organizations have been criticized for revealing details late, if at all. “Cyber incidents may result in losses from asserted and unasserted claims, including those related to warranties, breach of contract, product recall and…
Social Security kept silent about private data breach
Thomas Hargrove writes: The Social Security Administration has failed to inform tens of thousands of Americans that it accidentally released their names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers in an electronic database widely used by U.S. business groups. The federal agency has kept silent about a potentially harmful security breach of the personal data…