CJ Ciaramella reports: Senior Internal Revenue Service officials—including one at the heart of the IRS “targeting” scandal—violated agency policies and possibly federal records laws by using private email to send confidential taxpayer information, the GOP-led House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform said in a letter. In a Sept. 30 letter to IRS Acting Commissioner Daniel Werfel…
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IN: Telecom Company Being Investigated for Information Breach
An update on the TerraCom breach reported previously on this blog. Brandon Smith reports: The Attorney General’s office updated lawmakers Monday on a nearly five-month long investigation of telecommunications company TerraCom Incorporated. […] Tolliver says a lot of the information the state has obtained has come from the media outlet that first uncovered the breach…
Identity theft fears as a faulty laptop is resold on eBay
Another reminder of how much personal info winds up for sale on eBay – in this case, a defective laptop returned to the merchant who returned it to the manufacturer… A London film maker has found that a faulty Acer laptop he returned to Sainsbury’s was sold via eBay to an American buyer – who…
Piles of private documents found dumped in public bins
Robert Maxwell reports: Thousands of private financial documents were discovered sitting in a wide open community recycling dumpster on Thursday. KXAN received a ReportIt tip late Thursday morning that the dumpster was full of personal documents from a local home builder. We discovered home loans, copies of personal checks, purchase orders and site plans all on display…
Some TD Bank customers’ information sent to other customers
Jennifer Gannon reports Some customers of TD Bank had their information sent to other customers because of what the bank called a vendor error. TD Bank said a national firm responsible for printing and mailing statements accidentally sent some customers statements that had other customers’ information on the back. Stephania Pearce was balancing her checkbook…
Oh, those hidden fields in Excel spreadsheets: Columbia University Medical Center notifies students of breach
It seems that Columbia University Medical Center inadvertently exposed the Social Security numbers of 138 medical students from the graduating class of 2013 in an Excel spreadsheet sent to faculty, students, and staff. CUMC became aware of the breach on March 15. The breach occurred because the Excel spreadsheet with residency match lists for the graduating…