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CA: USPS investigating personal information breach in Menlo Park

Posted on November 18, 2013 by Dissent

Vic Lee writes:

Customers in Menlo Park were shocked at what they found on the counters at the local post office — social security numbers and other personal information on a pad of scratch paper. It’s a story you’ll only see on ABC7 News.

A postal service spokesperson tells us this could have been a careless example of recycling things that should have been shredded.

But they are launching an investigating to see if this breach was widespread among other post offices, or just isolated to this one. But I can tell you this — the scratch pads with the personal information were not just found one day, but on two separate occasions. So this was not just a one-time mistake.

Read more on ABC.


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