Bob Ratterman reports: Talawanda School District officials are offering a year of credit protection to former Talawanda High School students whose personal information may have been left in a desk sold at auction Aug. 3. A person who purchased a desk at the sale notified the district that it contained student information, including emergency medical…
Category: Paper
Personal identity records found in dumpster along downtown Cleveland sidewalk
Today’s education sector breach: Personal identity records were discovered Tuesday in a dumpster alongside the former Cleveland school administration building. The building is undergoing renovations for a new hotel and the school district says it has been moving decades of records out for safekeeping or shredding. Even so, some personal information has found its way…
Yep, let’s just keep discarding sensitive info…
WPMI reports from Alabama on what they found when they went dumpster diving at about a dozen title loan and cash advance businesses in the Mobile, Alabama area: In the dumpster out front of Alabama Title Loans on busy Springhill Avenue, I found dozens of documents, not shredded, and all full of personal information. “Here’s…
Boxes with personal info found in trash
We really need stronger laws protecting the security and disposal of paper records. Today’s example is from Beaverton, Oregon: Seven large boxes filled with personal information of clients from the Sylvan Learning Center, including names, birth dates, Social Security numbers and credit card information, were found in a Dumpster in Beaverton. Read more on KOIN….
UK: Workers’ personal information found in cabinet sold at auction
Here we go again: personal information left in filing cabinets that are surplussed or auctioned off. The personal details of dozens of employees from a council-owned waste company have been found in a filing cabinet bought at auction. The misplacing of the documents from Premier Waste Management was last night described as “diabolical” by a…
OK: Juvenile records found unsecured in old courthouse
Salesha Wilken reports: Juvenile court records, which by law are not open to the public, were found Wednesday strewn about the old Rogers County Courthouse, left unsecured and available to anyone who happened on them. The criminal index cards — including information about arrests, victims and “deprived” juvenile cases — were discovered by District Court…