The City of Regina says it is retraining staff after an employee accidentally released the private information of 1,000 citizens and city workers. Officials admit someone from the financial services department released data late last year that included partial names, social insurance numbers, licence plate numbers, and property tax and utility account numbers. The information…
Category: Exposure
CA: Hundreds of Hegarty Chiropractic patient charts found in dumpster
Hegarty Chiropractic may be feeling a bit bent out of shape today. They got caught dumping patient records in a dumpster. About 200 charts (files) with medical records, social security numbers, driver’s license numbers, etc. Rancho Cordova police retrieved the files and turned them over to the state for investigation. You can watch the news…
OK: Personal data stolen in SemGroup case
Rod Walton reports: Online banking bandits pulled thousands of dollars from the accounts of current and former SemGroup LP employees after personal information was inadvertently left on a bankruptcy court document made public last summer. SemGroup officials said, however, that as far as they are aware, all the money was returned to the accounts and…
CO: ‘Anti-Gym’ Personal Records Found In Dumpster
Rick Sallinger reports: Personal information on clients of a now-shuttered Denver gym has turned up in a very public place. Two weeks ago the Internal Revenue Service shut down the “Anti-Gym” for non-payment of payroll taxes. Somehow many of the gym’s records turned up outside in the trash. … There was information about gay relationships,…
UK: Woolworths customers risk ID fraud after staff dump banking details in a skip
Woolworths has left hundreds of its customers open to identity theft after dumping their till receipts in a skip. They contained highly-prized signatures, full bank account numbers and expiry dates, which can easily be used to clone someone’s ID. Read more in The Daily Mail
Purdue U. mailing error exposes 1099 forms of temporary employees
Purdue University reported a breach that occurred in January on Feb.3 on their site: A potential problem involving 1099 forms may affect individuals or organizations who were employed on a temporary basis by Purdue University in 2008. Due to a mailing error, some of these forms were inadvertently sent to the wrong individual or organization….