Richard Reed reports: Sometime between Dec. 30 and Jan. 10, an unidentified person left documents in a Portland-area restaurant that included confidential information about PCC Structurals Inc. employees. The security breach was low-tech, unlike the recent data disaster at Target Corp., in which hackers stole credit-card and other personal information for as many as 110 million customers. But…
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CT: Tax forms for 27,000 people contain the personal info of others
Ah, the reports of printing and mailing errors on tax forms are starting a bit early this year. Rob Polansky reports: The Connecticut Department of Labor said Friday that tax forms mailed to 27,000 individuals contained information related to other taxpayers. The department admitted the printing error on the 1099-G forms for people who collected…
Credit Card Receipts from Bay Area Old Navy Store Mistakenly Shipped to Shopper in Upstate New York
Ah, that pesky human error strikes again. Marianne Favro reports: Attention, Old Navy shoppers: Your credit card receipt, with full account number and signature, may have ended up in a random mailbox in Upstate New York. Anita Vogel lives in West Seneca, New York, near Buffalo. She recently received a package in the mail containing…
United Natural Foods warehouse with retired laptops and hard drives burglarized
Let’s never forget the importance of physical security. Attorneys for United Natural Foods Inc. (UNFI) report that in early October, UNFI was notified by police in Auburn, California that several old/retired laptops had been found in the possession of two homeless individuals on two occasions. UNFI’s investigation revealed that the laptops had last been located…
Acting Medicaid Director Releases Information on the Incorrect Mailing of Medicaid Cards
Raleigh, N.C. – Today, Department of Health and Human Services Acting Medicaid Director Sandra Terrell released the following information regarding the incorrect mailing of 48,752 Medicaid cards to the wrong addresses: After a review of the incident, it has been determined that some Medicaid cards were incorrectly sent because of human error in computer programming and…
UK: Men who obtained personal data from West Ham officials during Olympic Stadium bid fined thousands of pounds
CBallinger reports: A Crawley man who illegally obtained personal information from West Ham officials during the bidding process for the Olympic Stadium has been fined thousands of pounds. Richard Forrest, from Furzefield, in West Green, was fined £10,000 at Southwark Crown Court today (December 20). Forrest, a 31-year-old who is unemployed, pleaded guilty to obtaining…