Gareth Halfacree reports: Central Provident Fund statements and divorce documents; these were what Hidayat Sudirman found stored in a 14-inch Asus notebook PC he bought from retailer Newstead Technologies recently at an IT fair. The 25-year-old civil servant discovered 10GB worth of personal data, including tax return forms, belonging to its previous owner. Upset, he…
Category: Exposure
Lone Star Business Solutions exposes thousands of employees and applicants to ID theft
Let the naming, shaming, and flaming begin! A call to FactFinder 12 leads to the discovery of thousands of personal documents dumped in a Wichita alley. Lone Star Business Solutions, a third party payroll and human resource company for Lone Star restaurants, dumped the documents in a large dumpster behind its building in downtown Wichita….
OR: Soldier’s personal records surface at Goodwill store
How exactly did a binder full of military records end up at a Goodwill store in Hillsboro? That’s the question Amanda Wade asked herself during a recent trip to the store. She stumbled upon a binder that was loaded with dozens of military records for a man named Timothy Mallams. It had everything an ID…
MI: Bloomfield Hills Schools exposes employees’ names and Social Security numbers to parents
Bill Laitner reports that a response to a freedom of information request provided more information than it should have: The Bloomfield Hills School District accidentally revealed the names and Social Security numbers of 321 employees to two district parents who requested the number of staff whose salaries and benefits totaled $100,000 or more. When parent…
Personal information found in dumpster
Note: this story refers to the City of Cleveland, Texas – not Ohio. Vanesa Brashier reports: The City of Cleveland will be reviewing how it handles documents that are shared with council members after 10 job applications were found in a public recycling dumpster in Cleveland. The citizen who found the documents turned them over…
Email gaffe results in breach notifications by Randstad Professionals
Massachusetts-based Randstad Professionals recently notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of a security incident after an email error resulted in images of individuals’ 1099 forms being inadvertently attached to an email sent to one of their outside contractors. 1099 forms are federal forms that include a consultant’s name, address, Social Security Number, and wages…