Student records from Pueblo Community College, including Social Security numbers, were found by a Pueblo woman in a box of office supplies purchased at a South Side yard sale last summer in Pueblo. Read more on Pueblo Chieftain (sub. req. for full access).
Category: Paper
Kiwibank apologizes after privacy breach
Nicholas McBride of the Greymouth Star reports: Kiwibank has apologised to all customers affected by a privacy breach at the Greymouth branch. An envelope full of confidential documents was handed to a member of the public when they went into the Post Shop office last month. The individual took it home and opened it, unaware…
Company responsible for MPS social security mistake explains
Last week, John Cuoco reported that approximately 6,000 Milwaukee Public School District employees found their Social Security numbers exposed in plain view on mailings due to an error by a third party vendor providing prescription drug coverage for MPS Medicare D recipients. Yesterday, he updated his reporting to identify the vendor: The Milwaukee Public School District…
Your PII were lost in the mail – Clinical Reference Laboratory (update1)
Clinical Reference Laboratory provides lab tests for Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance policy applicants. On September 17, they learned that a billing sent to MassMutual on September 6 with applicants’ names, dates of birth, type of lab test performed, and/or partial or full Social Security numbers had been damaged in transit with USPS and some pages…
Piles of private documents found dumped in public bins
Robert Maxwell reports: Thousands of private financial documents were discovered sitting in a wide open community recycling dumpster on Thursday. KXAN received a ReportIt tip late Thursday morning that the dumpster was full of personal documents from a local home builder. We discovered home loans, copies of personal checks, purchase orders and site plans all on display…
Some TD Bank customers’ information sent to other customers
Jennifer Gannon reports Some customers of TD Bank had their information sent to other customers because of what the bank called a vendor error. TD Bank said a national firm responsible for printing and mailing statements accidentally sent some customers statements that had other customers’ information on the back. Stephania Pearce was balancing her checkbook…