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File Cabinet Purchase Leads To Identity Theft Concerns

Posted on September 28, 2009 by Dissent

Some former and current Panola School District, Oklahoma employees are learning that some of their employment records from 1998 and 1999, including W-2’s, were in file cabinets sold to the public. Now the people who bought the cabinets are declining to turn the records over to the school district without a court order and are…

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Judge orders Google to deactivate user’s Gmail account, but wait, there’s more…

Posted on September 26, 2009 by Dissent

Wendy Davis reports that in the Rocky Mountain Bank case previously covered here: In a highly unusual move, a federal judge has ordered Google to deactivate the email account of a user who was mistakenly sent confidential financial information by a bank. The order, issued Wednesday by U.S. District Court Judge James Ware in the…

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State Requiring Prompt Med To Appear At Hearing About Dumped Records

Posted on September 24, 2009 by Dissent

As a follow-up to a breach previously reported, Kerri Hartsfield reports: The State Department of Justice is requiring an attorney for Prompt Med to appear at a hearing after hundreds of medical records were found in a dumpster and sitting alongside a street. Last month, a 2 Wants to Know investigation revealed that more than…

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VT: City posts taxpayer info online

Posted on September 23, 2009 by Dissent

Stephanie M. Peters reports: A file containing bank account information for 314 city residents [Rutland, Vermont] who participate in the city’s direct debit tax payment program was inadvertently uploaded to the city’s Web site for a seven-day period earlier this month. Those affected were notified by the Treasurer’s Office late last week. […] Statistics for…

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Demon ebill blunder exposes thousands of passwords

Posted on September 23, 2009 by Dissent

PC Pro reports: Demon Internet has sent out a spreadsheet containing the personal details of thousands of customers with one of its new ebills. The spreadsheet – which has been forwarded to PC Pro – contains email addresses, telephone numbers and what appears to be usernames and passwords for the ebilling system. […] The Excel…

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EKU posted about 5,000 Social Security numbers online for a year

Posted on September 23, 2009 by Dissent

The names and Social Security numbers of about 5,000 Eastern Kentucky University faculty, staff and student workers were posted inadvertently on the Internet last September, where they have been displayed for a year, according to EKU President Doug Whitlock. There’s no evidence the information was accessed or replicated, Whitlock said in a campus-wide e-mail sent…

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