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Data security breach hits Portland-area employees of PCC Structurals (updated)

Posted on January 24, 2014 by Dissent

Richard Reed reports:

Sometime between Dec. 30 and Jan. 10, an unidentified person left documents in a Portland-area restaurant that included confidential information about PCC Structurals Inc. employees.

The security breach was low-tech, unlike the recent data disaster at Target Corp., in which hackers stole credit-card and other personal information for as many as 110 million customers. But in some ways, though it involved far fewer people, the PCC breach was more serious because the documents contained employees’ names and social security numbers – the all-important digits that are like gold in the hands of identity thieves.

The restaurant owner “immediately secured the documents,” according to a company letter obtained by The Oregonian.

Read more on Oregon Live.

Update: A copy of PCC Structural’s notification to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office with a copy of the notification letter to employees can be found here (pdf).

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