Some breach types are so well-known and easy to prevent that it’s hard to understand why they keep occurring. In December, the National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA) – International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) sent out its generic summary of benefits coverage to Family Medical Care Plan enrollees. No individual-specific medical information or details were included,…
Category: Miscellaneous
MS: Head Start records containing personal information stolen from Moss Point office
April Havens reports: Residents’ personal information could be in jeopardy after someone took Head Start records from Jackson County Civic Action Committee Inc.’s Jefferson Street facility in Moss Point. Spokeswoman Hannah Donegan sent out a news release today saying the theft occurred between April and April 24, and a police report has been filed in…
Nuix and EDRM republish Enron data set cleansed of more than 10,000 items containing private, health and financial information
A follow-up to an issue recently raised by BeyondRecognition.net and discussed on this blog. SAN FRANCISCO, CA – May 15, 2013 — Nuix, a worldwide provider of information management technologies, and EDRM, the leading standards organization for the eDiscovery and information governance market, have today republished the EDRM Enron PST Data Set after cleansing it of private,…
TN: Mayor’s donation check among records found in dumpster
Andy Wise reports: The director of an adult literacy charity is trying to figure out how the personal information of former associates and donors, including Memphis Mayor AC Wharton, were piled up inside the charity’s dumpster. “It absolutely should not have happened,” said Kevin Dean, executive director of Literacy Mid-South, based in Cooper-Young. “It was…
Two Miami Men Convicted In Identity Theft Tax Refund Fraud Scheme Involving Over 1,000 Victims
Earnest Baldwin, 36 of Miami, and Earl Baldwin, 42 of Miami were convicted on April 10 for their participation in a tax refund scheme using stolen identities. They had been charged in October 2012. According to testimony and evidence presented at trial, the defendants were involved in an identity theft tax fraud scheme that operated from…
Pathetic, pathetic, pathetic
And yet again: A resident contacted Target 11 saying he had discovered boxes of documents from a non-profit development agency in the West End of Pittsburgh. He said the documents, including names and Social Security numbers, were sitting right out in the open next to a dumpster on a public sidewalk. “They contained people’s Social Security numbers, row…