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Documents + unattended vehicles = yes, again

Posted on November 27, 2012 by Dissent

Karen Dillon reports that mortgage loan documents from Pulaski Bank  that included applicants’ tax returns and other sensitive information were stolen from an unattended vehicle in September.  The documents had reportedly been stolen from a loan official’s car while it was parked at a gym. This type of breach is certainly not new… I’ve been covering…

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Curb your enthusiasm!

Posted on November 24, 2012 by Dissent

Maybe one of the mantras of data protection should be “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”  In 2009, Yankees fans enthusiastically threw papers out of the window during the team’s World Series celebratory parade through the Canyon of Heroes. The unshredded  papers included files from A.L. Sarroff, Goldman Sachs, and the Bronx Supreme Court, as well as medical test…

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UK: Plymouth City Council fined £60,000 for sending child neglect report to wrong person

Posted on November 22, 2012 by Dissent

I’m guessing that Plymouth City Council isn’t giving thanks today – the Information Commissioner’s Office smacked them with a fine of £60,000 for a data protection breach that occurred in November 2011 when  the details of a child neglect case were sent to the wrong recipient. The breach occurred when two social workers used a shared printer…

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Scripps College reports second breach this year

Posted on November 22, 2012 by Dissent

It has not been a great year for infosecurity for Claremont-based Scripps College, it seems. Back in July, they disclosed that an employee had been sharing student financial aid applications with an unauthorized individual on and off since 2008.  The employee was not thought to have any malicious intent, but it was still a breach,…

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Personal Info Of Hundreds Of Philly Voters Dumped On Street Corner

Posted on November 9, 2012 by Dissent

Bruce Gordon reports: The privacy of hundreds upon hundreds of Philadelphia voters may have been violated this week, when piles of documents used in “Get Out The Vote” calls were left sitting on a Philly street corner. A woman who identified herself only as “Eileen” showed us cell phone pictures of documents piled in, on…

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Companies that Own and Manage Payday Lending and Check Cashing Stores to Settle FTC Charges That They Tossed Sensitive Consumer Data into Trash Dumpsters

Posted on November 9, 2012 by Dissent

Well, you read it here already, but now the FTC has officially announced its settlement with PLS Financial and Payday Loan Store over dumping of customer data.

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