Well, I haven’t found anything more on this from any news source and it’s always odd to find out about a U.S. breach from a non-U.S. source, but International Supermarkets is reporting that:
It has come to light that Wal-Mart has suffered a breach in its staff data system due to a former employee leaving their job with confidential records. The information is said to refer to 48,000 members of staff in the state of Illinois, America.
Anyone have a notification or more on this? If so, please send it in. Their report says that the breach was mid-2007 but is only being reported in the media now.
Update: Aha! I see that over this past weekend, the good folks over at OSF uploaded the notification to Illinois (pdf) even though there are no media reports linked. Yet another reason to have reports to states publicly available. According to the notification, 48,686 residents of Illinois were affected.