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Lost in the mail? 3,700 NYC employees’ Social Security numbers

Posted on March 7, 2009 by Dissent

Kathleen Lucadamo of the Daily News reports that documents containing the Social Security numbers of 3,700 members of the Office of Staff Analysts union went missing after New York City’s Office of Payroll Administration mailed them to union headquarters. The package, sent “certified, return-receipt mail” – never arrived. There is no indication as to why…

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Evicted OK child welfare worker leaves sensitive records behind

Posted on March 7, 2009 by Dissent

In what appears to be yet another breach involving paper records, Jay F. Marks of The Oklahoman reports that the Oklahoma Department of Human Services has opened an investigation into how a child welfare worker’s records ended up in possession of a local news station, KWTV-9. The records, which included names, Social Security numbers, contact…

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A bug in Google Docs leads to unintended file sharing

Posted on March 7, 2009 by Dissent

Richard de Vries explains on Slashdot: I work for a small Dutch company that uses Google Apps. This means that we can share documents with users within our domain (www.deondernemers.nl), as well as @gmail.com accounts or other Apps-domains. About three weeks ago, we discovered that some fifteen documents and spreadsheets were unintentionally shared with a…

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IN: Hotel discards unshredded customer records in dumpster

Posted on March 7, 2009 by Dissent

Liza Danver of WISH-TV in Indiana reports that the Homestead Studio Suites hotel in Indianapolis dumped unshredded hotel guest records into their dumpster, where they were noticed by a guest who contacted the news team. The records appeared to be several years’ old, and included names, home addresses, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, and yes, complete…

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ID: Computer Disk with Personal Information of Site Employees Lost

Posted on March 6, 2009 by Dissent

Personal information for thousand of current and former Idaho National Laboratory employees may be at risk. The Department of Energy’s Office of Health, Safety and Security said a computer disk containing information like first and last name, date of birth and social security numbers, was lost during shipment on January 30. […] While in its…

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CO: Health records blowing in the wind

Posted on March 6, 2009 by Dissent

ABC News in Denver reports that confidential patient records from Agape Healthcare in Greenwood Village were found blowing in people’s yards miles away in Aurora. Some of the records were dated earlier this week. Agape Healthcare provides in-home services to those with six months or less to live.

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