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CA: San Jose’s Tech Museum hacked
Mike Rosenberg reports: The Tech, the popular downtown San Jose museum, said Wednesday that a hacker broke into three old files lingering on its system. The thief captured museum members’ names, email addresses, home addresses and phone numbers and posted them to Twitter on Friday before the information was taken down. Museum spokesman Roqua Montez…
(update) Data breach potentially exposes 250 Clark College students’ information
More on an incident mentioned previously on this blog from Ian Larson in The Oregonian: A cyberattack last week may have exposed the personal information, including the names and student identification numbers, of 250 Clark College students. Nine students’ social security numbers were also briefly exposed in the data breach. The college quickly secured its computer systems…
UK: Banks face more privacy complaints from customers than any other group
Gerri Peev: Banks have attracted more customer complaints than any other group over allegations of mishandling sensitive information, the privacy watchdog reveals today. Lenders routinely lost, released or wrongly recorded personal data, the Information Commissioner warned in his annual report which detailed 603 complaints. But the true scale of privacy and data breaches could be…
AU: Telstra mail bungle breached Privacy Act
Josh Taylor reports: Telstra breached the Privacy Act by sending out tens of thousands of letters to the wrong addresses, according to the Australian Privacy Commissioner, which led to the personal information of about 60,300 Telstra customers being sent to the wrong people. In October last year, the Australian Communications and Media Authority and the…
MI: Laptop missing from Hurley Medical Center contained patient data
The other day they were claiming that there was no personal data involved, so I didn’t even mention the incident on my blogs. What a difference a day makes. Matt Franklin reports: Personal information of almost 2,000 Hurley Medical Center patients may be in the wrong hands this afternoon because the hospital says it is…