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E-problem puts library patrons' info on Internet
From: "Dissent" <Dissent () pogowasright org>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:32:44 -0500 (EST)
http://www.mlive.com/news/muchronicle/index.ssf?/base/news-10/1166631362312200.xml&coll=8 A technical problem on the Lakeland Library Cooperative Web site made available personal information of more than 15,000 patrons across West Michigan on the Internet. Information that was displayed included names, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, street addresses and library card numbers of library patrons registered on the site. Minors were also indicated on the spreadsheet type document by a listing of parents' names. "(Our systems manager) thinks there was a software malfunction," said Martha McKee, interim director of the Lakeland Cooperative Library. "They fixed that, so the information is not accessible anymore." [...] -- Privacy-related news and resources: http://www.pogowasright.org Privacy news headlines feed: http://www.pogowasright.org/backend/pogowasright.rss _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 143 million compromised records in 512 incidents over 6 years.
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