Nicola Hodges reports: Revenue & Customs has sent the names, addresses and National Insurance numbers of 2,200 claimants to the wrong people in the latest Government data bungle. The blunder involves child benefit letters to families whose children are 16, asking them to confirm that the youngsters are still studying. But some letters have contained…
Category: Exposure
UTEP: Students Social Security Numbers May Have Been Visible In Mail
Jessica Molinar reports: If you’re a University of Texas at El Paso student, you’ve probably gotten a letter in the mail from the university saying your Social Security number was visible when your tax form was sent out. UTEP said they notified 15,000 students but they don’t know exactly how many students were affected. UTEP…
Curian Capital slip-up reveals client data to another financial professional
Investment adviser firm Curian Capital maintains some records on clients of the financial professionals (such as investment advisers and broker-deals) it serves. According to a notification to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office dated January 29, on January 19, during the posting of routine fee statements to the secure electronic file cabinets of its financial…
OH: Error circulates state workers’ bank data
Alan Johnson reports: Personal banking information for 6,000 state employees, including Gov. Ted Strickland, was inadvertently included in a Jan. 27 e-mail distributed to dozens of payroll officers of state agencies. Republicans are calling it a security breach, but the Strickland administration says it was simply a mistake that posed little, if any, risk. “This…
WY: Kid Care CHIP Client Information Exposed Online
The Wyoming Department of Health (WDH) announced today an error has lead to potential online exposure of personal information provided by clients and applicants of the Wyoming Kid Care CHIP program. WDH Information Technology was notified Thursday that personal information of Kid Care clients was improperly appearing in Google search results. Thirty seconds upon receiving…
TX: Woman sentenced to 34 years over Irving ISD ID theft
As a follow-up to a case previously covered on this site where Irving ISD employees became victims of ID theft after paper records with their personal information was tossed out, unshredded, the Associated Press now reports that Sharon Denise Seeley pleaded guilty and was sentenced for her role in the scam. Seeley was sentenced to…