Ed Pearce reports: The Hollywood Video store in the Baring Village Shopping Center like others in the chain is now closed, its shelves empty, but if you were a customer there and filled out a membership form that paperwork and all its information was left free for the taking out back when the store closed….
Category: Exposure
Atlanta investigates security breach
Eric Stirgus reports: Atlanta officials said Friday they are investigating how personal information of about 1,000 current and former city Fire Rescue employees found its way to the Internet. The information was used on a personal laptop and then accessed by another computer, city officials said in a news release. It included the names, addresses,…
Nursing home patient information found in residents’ yards
Amber Parcher reports: Montgomery County’s Department of Health and Human Services is looking into how numerous Wheaton nursing home papers containing sensitive patient information have made their way into nearby neighbors’ yards over the past few months. Last month, the county sent a nursing home inspector to investigate complaints from residents in the Wheaton Regional…
TN: Medical Records, Waste Dumped In Mansion
Jeremy Finley reports: State health officials and emergency management officials are trying to determine who dumped piles of medical records and waste in an abandoned Springfield mansion. […] There are rooms filled with medical records, boxes and boxes of the most private of information, all laying alongside the medical waste, discarded like trash. It’s also…
Former FDIC Employee Admits Leaking Financial Data
Merikay Wootton, 63, Lenexa, Kansas, has pleaded guilty to disclosing confidential information while she was an employee of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, U.S. Attorney Lanny Welch said today. Wootton pleaded guilty to unlawfully disclosing confidential information from a government agency. In her plea, she admitted she was working as a loan officer for Columbian…
OH: Private papers found in trash
Ryan Gauthier reports: For several weeks, a mound of city documents containing Social Security numbers, phone numbers and carbon copies of checks filled a Dumpster at Smith Park, where they were accessible to anyone. The Journal received a tip that led to the discovery of countless junked records containing personal information for Middletown residents, along…