Yesterday, I posted a link to a Treasury Department audit report that said that 1.2 million people had earned income using other people’s Social Security numbers, and then filed their returns using individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs) that often enable them to get tax refunds — even while they had stolen someone else’s SSN to…
Category: Breaches
UK: ‘Enders broke privacy rules
Leigh Holmwood reports that the BBC got its wrist-slapped over a somewhat inexplicable mistake in which a real person’s mobile telephone number was displayed during a soap opera, leading to the real person getting thousands of unwanted text messages and calls: Character Ricky Butcher was seen receiving texts from wayward missus Sam Mitchell as he…
UK: Queen’s tailor sues former employee
Harry Wallop reports on what would be considered an “insider breach” over on databreaches.net: Britain’s oldest tailor, Ede & Ravenscroft, is suing a former employee, which it accuses of stealing vital customer data. The company, sells not just bespoke suits but is also supplies gowns to all the Oxbridge colleges and robes to the House…
Data Redaction: You’re Doing it Wrong
John Bambenek writes: PDF files are a common way to distribute documents on the Internet and even are used for distributing documents with redacted (removed) content. However, when you distribute redacted documents make sure that the data you don’t want out there isn’t, in fact, still in the file. Case in point, take the upcoming…