On April 1, Massachusetts Financial Services Company notified (pdf) the New Hampshire Attorney General that they were informed by a customer on February 23 that an error in their online tax reporting system allowed Form 1099 tax forms of certain accounts to be viewed by an owner of one or more of these accounts....
Khushwant Singh of AsiaOne reports that (as elsewhere), many educational institutions in Singapore are inadvertently exposing personal information of students and staff on the web.
Card Systems is frequently cited as an example of how costly a breach can be to a business, but in Australia, Bottle Domains may become a similar example. Following a breach that resulted in the theft of personal information on approximately 60,000 people that was put up for sale on the internet, the company...
saskatoonhomepage.ca reports that a man who bought surplus boxes from Saskatchewan Government Insurance (SGI) discovered that the boxes were not empty. They contained some insurance files with personal information. The agency is investigating and the privacy commissioner has been notifed.
In the justice system: Ashley Johnson was arrested in Memphis for trying to open a store account under a false name. When police searched her vehicle, they discovered cards in dozens of other identity cards. Johnson allegedly used names and identification numbers she found on employee applications that she took from trash containers behind...
Back in February, CBS News reported that dozens of Irving Independent School District employees had become victims of ID theft and that a former volunteer at the school, Sharon Seeley, had been charged in connection with the case. Now today, Katherine Leal Unmuth of the Dallas Morning News provides an update on this case....
Seen on The Wesleyan Argus: When Information Technology Services (ITS) switched Wesleyan’s e-mail to Gmail in January of this year, students were able to log into other students’ e-mails for about a month by typing in a username and leaving the password field blank. This glitch has been but one of a multitude of...
Mike McKnight of WOWT in Nebraska reports that as a follow-up to their exposure of a breach that exposed personnel files on more than 20 former employees of Claire’s, Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning gave Claire’s Corporation a written notice that they needed to develop a policy to ensure records are properly destroyed and...
Richard Deschamps of radio station CJAD reports: If you’ve ever gotten a traffic ticket from the city of Montreal, there’s a good chance it, along with a lot of your personal information, might have wound up in a place where anyone looking to steal personal information might have had access to it. An investigation...
The Associated Press reports that the Tennessee Department of Education has announced that a private contractor, Public Consulting Group, accidentally exposed personal information of more than 18,000 Nashville public school students and 6,000 of their parents on the web from December 28 through March 31, when the problem was discovered by a parent. Information...