Jeff Overley of the Orange County Register reports that the state Department of Real Estate wants to suspend or revoke the license of mortgage broker Seaview Financial for dumping 24 cartons containing confidential and detailed financial records on 350 customers in an elementary school’s bins (see photos). The owner, Paul Henry Reed, had denied wrongdoing…
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Penn State: Employees alerted to possible security breach
From the CentreDaily.com: The Social Security numbers of employees working at Penn State Office of Physical Plant in 2000 may have been stolen. On Feb. 20, a virus infiltrated an administrative computer that contained more than 1,000 social security numbers of OPP employees, said OPP spokesman Paul Ruskin.
LA: Medical records discarded in trash bin
Chrissi Coile of KTBS reports that a large pile of medical records containing x-rays, MRIs, names, and Social Security numbers which were found discarded in Toney’s Eastridge Grocery’s trash bin were put there by Dr. Frederick Knight, who admits that it is not the first time he has done something like that. Police are investigating,…
University of Florida: “starting to have…. quite a reputation”
Nathan Crabbe of The Gainesville Sun reports that in addition to the breaches that recently made the news, UF has had four cases of ID theft resulting from breaches. During a committee meeting of university trustees at which they passed federal rules intended to prevent identity theft, UF Chief Privacy Officer Susan Blair described the…
Comcast passwords leaked onto the Web
Elinor Mills reports: Thousands of user names and passwords for Comcast customers was removed from document sharing Web site Scribd on Monday, two months after it was posted there. Scribd removed the list of more than 8,000 passwords and user names after being contacted by Brad Stone at The New York Times. Stone wrote that…
Stolen computer at UT contains personal information of students, faculty
A computer stolen from the University of Toledo contained personal information for about 24,000 students and 450 faculty during the 2007-08 and 2008-09 academic years, the university announced Monday. […] The computer was password protected and many of the files were specifically encrypted or individually password protected, he said. The personal data was saved on…