Fran Handy reports that after the Sparta School District in New Jersey erroneously sent out the unredacted version of a spread sheet containing vendors’ SSN and other information — instead of the redacted one that they had prepared in response to an open records request — the District has had some trouble getting the data…
Category: Exposure
(follow-up) Former FDIC Employee Fined for Leaking Financial Data
Merikay Wootton, 63, Lenexa, Kan., has been sentenced to 24 months probation and fined $3,600 for disclosing confidential information while she was an employee of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Wootton pleaded guilty to unlawfully disclosing confidential information from a government agency. In her plea, she admitted she was working as a loan officer for…
UF officials notify patients of privacy breach
University of Florida officials have notified 2,047 people that their Social Security or Medicaid identification numbers were included on address labels affixed to letters inviting them to participate in a research study. The letters were sent through the U.S. Postal Service on May 24, and the information also was shared with a telephone survey company….
MA: State’s error unveiled Social Security numbers
Todd Wallack reports that the Massachusetts secretary of state’s office goofed when it responded to an information request from IA Week, an investment industry publication. Instead of sending the requested list of registered investment companies, it sent a list of 139,000 investment advisers registered with the state, complete with their information: In addition to their…
UK: Council will not face censure for Data Protection error
A council which wrongly included national insurance numbers on post will not face action over the blunder. Northumberland County Council has been told by the Information Commissioner that it will not be censured over the mistake. The Journal reported in April how, due to “human error”, the authority failed to remove national insurance numbers from…
WellPoint: 940 customers’ records may have been accessed
Reuters reports on the WellPoint breach that’s in the news this week: […] The company believes that the security glitch was exploited to access information on 940 insurance applications. Separately, unauthorized viewers accessed spreadsheets that “in rare cases” contained Social Security numbers, Sanders said. WellPoint is doing forensic work to identify the applicants whose data…