The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has revealed that six local banks have sold the personal information of more than 600,000 clients to unrelated third parties for marketing purposes over the past years. It said some of these institutions, which cannot be named for legal reasons, only stopped selling such data last month following a…
Category: Breaches
Facebook bug could give spammers names, photos
Robert McMillan reports: Facebook is scrambling to fix a bug in its website that could be misused by spammers to harvest user names and photographs. It turns out that if someone enters the e-mail address of a Facebook user along with the wrong password, Facebook returns a special “Please re-enter your password” page, which includes…
InPsych app is a privacy threat – psychologist
Psychologist John Grohol of Psych Central posts this warning on his site: I’m off to attend the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association (APA) in San Diego today, but before I go, I do have two APA-related news items to post. The first is about the APA’s social networking application it deployed for this…
Ca: Bylaw violation notice ends up in envelope mailed to Coun. File
Douglas Glyn reports: Four days after she raised concerns about the potential of citizens’ privacy being violated, Coun. Pat File received a letter from the town intended for someone else. File says the envelope was addressed to Bruce G. Gillies, her partner, and herself. However, when she opened it she discovered a notice of a…