Andrei Chirileasa reports: The largest real estate portal in Romania, Imobiliare.ro, has suffered a data breach that could potentially affect its entire client database, reports Website Planet quoted by Profit.ro. It remains unknown whether the company’s client information fell into nefarious hands, but the company’s bucket was found to be exposed, without password protection or...
Marion Neumann reports (translation): Munich – In times of the corona lockdown , online shopping is probably a blessing for many people. Products can be conveniently delivered to your home with just a few clicks. However, the shopping experience becomes problematic when there are difficulties with data protection. There was such a problem recently with the online shop...
Mary Jo Ola reports: The Shorewood School District mistakenly released students’ personal information while responding to an open records request. TMJ4 News learned a parent made the request to see results of the district survey and was surprised to see personal information was not redacted. Read more on TMJ4.
Greg Sukiennik reports: The Vermont Department of Labor is scrambling to repair the damage caused by the errant mailing of tax forms with personally identifiable information, including names, addresses and Social Security numbers, to the wrong addresses. State Labor Commissioner Michael Harrington says some people who received unemployment benefits were sent 1099-G tax forms...
One of those “human error” incidents… Typically, when a child’s school photo is taken, all the picture-taker needs is the student’s name and nice, big smile. But, as it was revealed Monday to parents in Friendswood ISD, students’ Social Security numbers were sent to a photographer responsible for taking their pictures every school year....