Some security breaches are just caused by raw stupidity at work.
For instance - look at how the
Boston Globe managed to give out personal info for a bunch of
subscribers:
Credit and bank card numbers of as many as 240,000
subscribers of The Boston Globe and Worcester Telegram &
Gazette were inadvertently distributed with bundles of T&G
newspapers on Sunday, officials of the newspapers said yesterday.
The confidential information was on the back of paper used in
wrapping newspaper bundles for distribution to carriers and
retailers. As many as 9,000 bundles of the T&G, wrapped in
paper containing subscribers' names and their confidential
information, were distributed Sunday to 2,000 retailers and 390
carriers in the Worcester area, said Alfred S. Larkin Jr.,
spokesman for the Globe.
In addition, routing information for personal checks of 1,100
T&G subscribers also may have been inadvertently
released.
One word for these guys: Shredder.