WAFF 48 staff reports that employee payroll data for Hancock Fabrics in Huntsville Alabama was found dumped in the trash behind the business. The payroll records, which go back to 2005, contained social security numbers, pay rates, and first and last names. The company says that the records were improperly disposed of in error.
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Maryland’s federal court leaks personal info on web (update 1)
An error by the federal court in Maryland resulted in medical information being accessible on the web for about two weeks. Not much info was provided by WMDT, and it’s not clear why medical information would have been included in what sounds like warrants on 226 people that got publicly shared, but 42 SSN were…
TX: UPD looking into stolen debit cards
Brandon Scott of The Huntsville Item reports: The University Police Department has been investigating reported stolen debit cards of students from Sam Houston State University. Huntsville police and the University police have totaled 24 cases of debit card and identity theft within the past month, all of which have been campus issued BearkatOne cards.
VA: Grand jury indicts woman for revealing identity information of GDATP employees (updated)
Stephanie Porter-Nichols reports: A Smyth County grand jury indicted a 40-year-old Chilhowie woman Wednesday for distributing the names, salaries and Social Security numbers of hundreds of General Dynamics’ employees in the midst of a strike last spring. In Smyth County Circuit Court, the felony indictment was handed down for Melissa H. Trail. The indictment charged…
Katrina evacuees may have had personal information published on web
Katie Moore of WWLTV reports that although FEMA learned on December 19 that personal information of nearly 17,000 evacuees — including “names, Social Security numbers, addresses, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and other disaster information” — was published without authorization on scribd.com and esnips.com, many of those affected are just now finding out about it. The…
Shaik's 'privacy violated'
Johannesburg – The Health Professions Council of South Africa expressed alarm on Wednesday at the media’s “violation” of patient confidentiality. “We have noted, with horror and dismay, media articles indicating that the press are in possession of confidential medical reports violating patient confidentiality,” HPCSA registrar Boyce Mkhize said in a statement. This was not only…