Ah, missed this one as there was no press release to accompany it. An undertaking to comply with the seventh data protection principle has been signed by Marston Properties. This follows the loss of 37 staff members’ details when the filing cabinet the information was stored in was sent to a recycling centre and crushed. The…
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CA: Burgled mail kiosk results in breach notification
From the California Correctional Health Care Services submission to California’s Office of the Attorney General, the text of the letter they are sending to affected individuals: Dear FirstName LastName, On June 11, 2012, a kiosk mail box located at the California Correctional Health Care Services (CCHCS) Regional Administration building in Fresno, California was discovered to…
NZ: SSC dismisses breach of privacy fears
Seen on Radio New Zealand: The State Services Commission is moving to quell fears that people may have had their privacy breached as part of a Kiwis Count survey. Postcards reminding participants about the online survey have been sent containing not just names and addresses, but also peoples’ access passwords and user names. The reminder…
SC: Tax Preparer Tosses Sensitive Record in Dumpster
Graeme Moore reports: A tax preparer who closed her business three years ago tossed several boxes of old records, some of which contained sensitive personal information. The records were found Thursday morning in a recycling bin off Fernwood-Glendale Road behind the old Ingles supermarket in Spartanburg. While most of the documents were just invoices, investigators…
LA: Law firm’s files found under the interstate
If there’s one thing I really hate to see, it’s reports of confidential records blowing in the wind or exposed because medical professionals or lawyers haven’t taken proper steps to securely dispose of them. Here’s another lawyer one, from WAFB: Below the interstate at Dalrymple and along the sidewalk, there are documents strewn about with…
TX: Tarleton State University officials investigate privacy breach
Micah Moore reports: Hundreds of Tarleton State University documents containing students’ personal information were scattered across the intersection of Washington and Lillian streets Tuesday afternoon breaching a federal law that is supposed to protect student records. The financial aid documents from 1997-98 contained the social security number, date of birth, federal PELL grant disbursements and…