WGAL reports that Security Savings Systems of New Cumberland mailed 1099-G forms to taxpayers that exposed others’ Social Security numbers: On Tuesday, taxpayers in Derry Township received sheets of paper in the mail with the information of two taxpayers on it. These 1099-G forms list the amount of the person’s tax refund that they received…
Category: Exposure
UK: Basildon Council staff personal data published online
Details of an Essex council’s entire workforce were released online in a “serious security breach”, it has said. Names, dates of birth, sickness information and work contact numbers for Basildon Council’s staff of “about 1,000” were published on the internet. A council worker spotted the breach on Monday and the details were removed by Tuesday,…
UK: Met Police admits victims’ email address sharing error
Scotland Yard has admitted inadvertently sharing the email addresses of more than 1,000 victims of crime with other victims. In total 1,136 emails were sent out “in human error” on Monday, police said. No other personal details were revealed and police are contacting everyone affected to explain what happened and to apologise, Scotland Yard confirmed….
UK: £140,000 fine for Midlothian Council after sending child data to wrong people five times in as many months (updated)
A Scottish council has been fined £140,000 after repeatedly releasing sensitive information about vulnerable children and carers to the wrong people. Midlothian Council was guilty of five data protection breaches in as many months last year. It is the first local authority in Scotland to be fined by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), which is…
CORRECTED and DELETED: NC: Documents Containing Personal Info Found In Dumpster
CORRECTION: The incident reported in this entry was from 2009. Don’t know how it showed up as news in my newsreader, but my apologies for reporting it again as a new incident and am deleting it.
CA: Sequoia Hospital vendor posted hospital employees’ personal information online
Aaron Kinney reports: A contractor working for Sequoia Hospital inadvertently posted the personal information of 391 current and former hospital employees on a public website, where it stayed for four years, the hospital said Thursday. An employee for Towers Watson, an international professional services firm, posted the information in October 2007, hospital CEO Glenna Vaskelis…