WAFF 48 staff reports that employee payroll data for Hancock Fabrics in Huntsville Alabama was found dumped in the trash behind the business. The payroll records, which go back to 2005, contained social security numbers, pay rates, and first and last names. The company says that the records were improperly disposed of in error.
Category: Exposure
Maryland’s federal court leaks personal info on web (update 1)
An error by the federal court in Maryland resulted in medical information being accessible on the web for about two weeks. Not much info was provided by WMDT, and it’s not clear why medical information would have been included in what sounds like warrants on 226 people that got publicly shared, but 42 SSN were…
VA: Grand jury indicts woman for revealing identity information of GDATP employees (updated)
Stephanie Porter-Nichols reports: A Smyth County grand jury indicted a 40-year-old Chilhowie woman Wednesday for distributing the names, salaries and Social Security numbers of hundreds of General Dynamics’ employees in the midst of a strike last spring. In Smyth County Circuit Court, the felony indictment was handed down for Melissa H. Trail. The indictment charged…
Katrina evacuees may have had personal information published on web
Katie Moore of WWLTV reports that although FEMA learned on December 19 that personal information of nearly 17,000 evacuees — including “names, Social Security numbers, addresses, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and other disaster information” — was published without authorization on scribd.com and esnips.com, many of those affected are just now finding out about it. The…
Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: Thomas Alan Thompson, a preacher at Calvary Baptist Church, was arrested and charged with identity theft after allegedly praying preying upon his congregation. More. Janice Washington, a Registry of Motor Vehicles employee working at the Braintree branch was arrested on March 19 on federal identity theft charges for selling genuine birth…
Ohio personnel files found in auctioned file cabinets
The Associated Press reports that someone who purchased file cabinets at a state surplus auction discovered that Ohio personnel files containing Social Security numbers, medical histories, and salaries of five former state employees were still in the cabinet. According to man, when he contacted the Ohio Department of Administrative Services about the situation, first they…