Michelle Ruby reports from Canada: Darlene Clifford is concerned about her financial privacy after she received someone else’s RRSP tax receipt. The Brantford woman received her tax receipt, issued by Scotia Trust, in the mail last week. The top section of the three-part form contained her correct personal information. The middle and lower parts of…
Category: Exposure
Wrong T4s accidentally mailed to former staffers of MPs
Mike De Souza reports: The House of Commons has launched an internal probe in the wake of an “administrative error” that resulted in hundreds of personal income tax forms mailed to the wrong addresses, Canwest News Service has learned. The glitch affected 697 former staffers of members of Parliament in 2009 who received a T4…
State leads investigation of sheriff’s deputy alleged to have taken reports, data
Elizabeth Larson reports: A Lake County Sheriff’s deputy is the subject of an ongoing investigation involving the alleged theft of documents and massive amounts of protected data, surveillance of fellow deputies and allegations that he posted an investigative report on the Internet because of political motivations. Dariush Michael Morshed, 48, is at the center of…
CO: Littleton Pizza Hut employees angry over personal info breach
John Romero of KDVR reports: Employees of a local Pizza Hut franchise are outraged after personal documents, including employment applications, social security numbers, and tax information, are left at car wash on Federal Boulevard. FOX31 viewer Melvin Burris found the documents at the Road Runner Car Wash at Belleview and Federal when he stopped to…
More info on the Brown University incident report
The Brown University breach, which I had just included in another blog entry this morning, now has some additional details available. Julia Kim of The Brown Daily Herald reports that Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island accidentally sent paper records of more than 500 Brown employees and their family members to another subscriber company…
NMSU acts to address limited 2006 exposure of student personal data
Amanda L. Husson reports: The names and Social Security numbers of about 300 New Mexico State University students were inadvertently leaked through file-sharing software last fall, the university revealed Wednesday. Letters were mailed to the affected students last week. Shaun Cooper, NMSU associate vice president and chief information officer, said the risk of identity theft…