Karen Velie reports: In the age of rampant identity theft, San Luis Obispo County officials, in a recent mailing to Estate Financial Inc. (EFI) victims, deliberately placed some investor bank account numbers on the outside of envelopes they mailed to the victims through their financial institutions. “My bank called me and said that they had…
Category: Exposure
IN: Boxes of medical files found abandoned
Tom Moor reports: An agent with the Indiana attorney general’s office removed 21 boxes of medical records from a downtown office building Friday that contain the personal information of hundreds of local people. The boxes, consisting of thousands of sheets of paper, contain patients’ Social Security numbers, addresses, phone numbers, diagnoses and prescriptions. […] Although…
Press Copy to have your Identity Stolen
Melissa Yeager of WINK News follows up on their investigation where they purchased used hard drives on eBay only to discover that they contained personal information such as bank accounts, credit cards, social security numbers, even pharmacy prescriptions. The news team tracked some of the data back to Sears and Giant Foods of Maryland, who…
Es: Barcelona hospital has opened a disciplinary case against the doctor patient details on the street
Barcelona hospital has opened a disciplinary case against the doctor who left patient details on the street. The papers contained the personal details of 173 transplant patients beside a container for recycling paper. It appears the papers were kept at the persons home, although they no longer worked at the hospital. T he person ivolved…
Queensland Police email private details of traffic offenders
Anna Caldwell reports: An internal police intelligence document that detailed the private information of up to 12 traffic offenders already dealt with was leaked to as many as 50 people outside the Queensland Police Service. The document included the names, photographs, addresses, registration plates and criminal histories of the group. Police say it was “mistakenly”…
FL: Social Security Numbers Published in Collier
Collier County admits they may have thousands of pages of your personal information online for anyone to see. More than 9 million documents are filed at the Collier Clerk of Courts Office and WINK News discovered software may be to blame for thousands of those documents not having your personal information blacked out. Read more…