Jennifer Godwin reports that 35,000 current and former Arkansas National Guardsmen will be notified that their names, Social Security numbers, and other personal information were on a hard drive that went missing last month. Investigators determined that a file on the drive contains information on those who enlisted in the Arkansas National Guard dating back…
Category: Lost or Missing
Arkansas Guard alerting soldiers of data loss
Stuttgart, Ark. — CAMP JOSEPH T. ROBINSON – An unsecure hard drive containing personally identifiable information on a currently unknown number of current and former Arkansas National Guard Soldiers was reported missing on February 22. An Arkansas Guard Soldier reported the loss after conducting an exhaustive search to locate the drive when it was first…
(follow-up) Federal Office Offers $50,000 Reward for Missing External Drive
Hilton Collins reports: The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is still on the lookout for a missing external drive containing copies of personal data — including Social Security numbers — of former Bill Clinton administration staffers and people who contacted or visited the White House during the Clinton era. One of former Vice President…
NY: Social Security loses a CD with personal info
Peter C. Mastrosimone reports: A computer disc containing detailed personal information about 969 New Yorkers was lost by a Social Security Administration employee traveling to Queens from the Bronx back in late October. Three months later, on Jan. 22, the agency sent out letters to those people, explaining the situation and assuring them that officials…
Highmark notifies members of new ‘data spill’
Highmark was notifying some 3,700 members on Wednesday that documents containing their names, policy identification and social security numbers were missing, the second such data spill for the region’s dominant health insurer in four months. In January, the company mailed a premium billing statement to Boscov’s Department Store, a client in Reading, according to Highmark….
Wigan Council loses the data of 200 disabled residents
A Greater Manchester council has lost details of 200 disabled residents – a year after a previous security blunder. Wigan Council believes a memory stick containing hundreds of confidential details fell out of an employee’s pocket in January…. Town hall chiefs have suspended one member of staff and disciplined another in relation to the latest…