An employee taking out the trash at a Southside office plaza found boxes of employees’ W-2 forms, copies of their driver’s licenses, Social Security cards and other personal information, all from the tax company Jackson Hewitt. Cynthia Kessler said she found out Monday some of her personal information, including her Social Security number, driver’s license…
Category: Breach Incidents
IE: HSE ‘rocked’ by security breach on 1,500 patient records
Roisin Burke reports: Hundreds of patient records were seriously compromised by a major security breach at the HSE, the Sunday Independent has learned. The 1,500 sensitive health records were removed from a Dublin office and emailed to an outside organisation. A private IT contractor, who was being overseen by a HSE staff member, downloaded the…
Computer security at Tech questioned
Suzanne Barteau reports: A procedural mishap at New Mexico Tech’s Computer Center may have allowed the Social Security numbers of a few thousand people to be publicly available to anyone with a Tech computer account for nearly five years. William Colburn, Tech graduate, former Tech employee and Tech Community College instructor and current Tech student,…
UC Davis Medical Center notified 900 patients of data theft
Bobby Caina Calvan of the Sacramento Bee reports: UC Davis Medical Center officials said financial documents and other data containing information about 900 patients were stolen in an August burglary of a West Sacramento courier service. A med center spokesman, Charles Casey, said the affected patients were notified of the incident, and “the risk of identity…
Ca: Thousands of old papers with personal info on guests found behind Best Western Primrose
Chris Doucette reports: Thousands of slips of paper with personal information of past guests from around the world were found blowing in the wind in an alley behind a downtown hotel Friday morning. And many of the old documents, found around 7:30 a.m. scattered next to a dumpster behind the Best Western Primrose at Carlton…
Illinois AG sues Payday Loan Store over improper disposal of customer data
Attorney General Lisa Madigan today filed a lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court against The Payday Loan Store of Illinois, Inc. (PLS), for allegedly failing to safeguard customer data as promised. The Attorney General filed the suit after learning that documents containing customers’ personal information had turned up in trash bins outside four store locations….