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P2P-related breach affects high-profile clients from Wagner Resource Group

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2008-07-14 17:08:21 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...birth and Social Security numbers Breach Description The Washington Post today ran a story I wrote on a data breach of a local investment firm that exposed the names, birth dates and Social Security numbers of some of the Washington area's most powerful attorneys, including Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer Reference URL SecurityFix...
 
Tags: wagner, p2p, investment firm, evan p2p file, mclean investment firm, p2p file, breach, wagner network, wagner resource
 
 
 
 
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Oldham Primary Care Trust NHS loses two data sticks

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2008-01-11 17:15:40 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...birth I'm not sure if this means that copies of assessments AND names, addresses and dates of birth OR just names, addresses and dates of birth Breach Description The Oldham Primary Care Trust NHS has issued a press release announcing the loss of two "data sticks" containing personal information belonging to clients that had contact with...
 
Tags: information, information lost, personal information, financial information, medical information, information security, data, freephone information line, data sticks
 
 
 
 
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New parents exposed in Fresno County lost mail

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2008-04-07 16:07:10 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...birth certificate applications that list personal information of Valley babies and their parents are missing after they were mailed to the state. An envelope containing the birth certificate applications arrived at the the state Department of Public Health in Sacramento damaged, but with most of the forms missing Reference URL The Mercury...
 
Tags: county, sensitive personal information, personal information, fresno, fresno county, list personal information, security, security breach, officials
 
 
 
 
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Petty local government bureaucracy alive and well!

2008-04-28 12:00:14 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog
 
...birth certificate as confirmation of her identity. This is despite the fact that her birth certificate was originally produced for the same council less than a year ago for the same purpose before she could attend her current school. Anyway, I dutifully posted said document. It has however, failed to arrive - either lost in the post or...
 
Tags: current school, school, birth, school admissions team, post box, post, process, robot replies, local council
 
 
 
 
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House committee issues report and finds fault with TSA web site

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2008-01-15 09:35:53 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...birth date, birth place, sex, height, weight, hair color, eye color, address, and home and work telephone number Breach Description According to the January, 2008 United States House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform report titled INFORMATION SECURITY BREACH AT TSA: THE TRAVELER REDRESS WEBSITE In October 2006,...
 
Tags: tsa, website, website contract, traveler redress website, tsa moved quickly, security breach, information security breach, security vulnerabilities, multiple security vulnerabilities
 
 
 
 
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The Naval Surface Warfare Center warns employees

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2008-01-16 09:51:41 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...birth, job titles, salary and employment information Breach Description Officials at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division were made aware of a breach involving personal information belonging to current and former employees after a criminal attempted to purchase a big-screen television at a Sears store in Pennsylvania using the...
 
Tags: company data destruction, company data, employees personal information, personal information, destruction, information, information security, employees, employment information
 
 
 
 
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Cascade Healthcare Community donors affected by malware

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2008-03-07 14:02:22 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...birth and credit card information Breach Description A computer virus may have exposed the names, credit card numbers, dates of birth and home addresses of more than 11,500 individuals who donated to Cascade Healthcare Community in Bend and Redmond Reference URL Cascade Healthcare Community press release The Oregonian The Bend Bulletin ...
 
Tags: personal information vulnerable, personal information, cascade healthcare community, community, information, information assets, employee information, credit card information, credit card
 
 
 
 
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40,000 BlueCross BlueShield members notified of lost laptop

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2008-03-11 15:31:27 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...birth, Social Security numbers, addresses, employer group names, and health insurance identifier numbers Breach Description Blue-Cross Blue-Shield of Western New York says it is notifying tens of thousands of its members about identity theft concerns after one of it's company laptops went missing Reference URL The Buffalo News WIVB Channel...
 
Tags: sensitive personal information, personal information, information, confidential information, laptop, information owners, breach description, breach, security breach
 
 
 
 
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Personal member information on The Dental Network website

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2008-03-20 12:05:14 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...birth Breach Description On February 20, 2008, The Dental Network (TDN) learned that, for a limited period of time, access to member data on its website was left unprotected from outside exposure. This data included personal information that included name, Social Security number, address(es) and date of birth Reference URL The New Hampshire...
 
Tags: information, breach description, breach, breach notification completely, dental network, data breach, personal information, website, security breach
 
 
 
 
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San Quentin visitor and volunteer information lost

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2008-03-31 11:14:31 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...birth dates and driver's license numbers Breach Description A flash memory drive containing names, birth dates and driver's license numbers of more than 3,500 people who either volunteered or visited San Quentin State Prison in a group tour has been lost, a prison official said Friday Reference URL The San Francisco Chronicle KCBS 740 AM...
 
Tags: prison official, prison