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PA: Personal information of Rent-A-Center customers discovered in Port Richmond dumpster

Posted on November 1, 2013 by Dissent

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…

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CO: Pueblo Community College student privacy breach revealed

Posted on October 17, 2013 by Dissent

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).

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Kiwibank apologizes after privacy breach

Posted on October 11, 2013 by Dissent

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…

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Company responsible for MPS social security mistake explains

Posted on October 8, 2013 by Dissent

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…

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Your PII were lost in the mail – Clinical Reference Laboratory (update1)

Posted on October 4, 2013 by Dissent

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…

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Piles of private documents found dumped in public bins

Posted on September 27, 2013 by Dissent

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…

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