Okay, this is bad. Ken Kolker reports: Federal agents raided a tax preparer’s former home and seized abandoned documents from decades of returns, including names, addresses and Social Security numbers — but they didn’t get it all, Target 8 discovered on Wednesday. Target 8 found thousands of pages of tax documents in a burn barrel…
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NZ: Westpac remains tight-lipped about privacy incident
Jimmy Ellingham has update on a breach first reported back in April. Westpac remains tight-lipped about a privacy breach where customer details went walkabout from one of its Palmerston North branches. The bank will not confirm if it has told affected customers what happened. Meanwhile, the man who was accused of taking documents has not…
PA: Personal information of Rent-A-Center customers discovered in Port Richmond dumpster
John Rawlins reports: A sharp eyed city Streets Department sanitation officer came across critical personal information casually tossed in a Port Richmond dumpster. The discovery took place outside the Rent-A-Center at Aramingo and Ontario. “What I discovered was several different folders with fully filled out credit applications for Rent-A-Center,” Officer Brian Chavis of Sanitation Enforcement…
CO: Pueblo Community College student privacy breach revealed
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).
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…