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IN: AG Investigates Cardinal Fitness Dumped Documents

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Dissent

I love when local media report on breaches and the state then investigates. Here’s another example: Deputy Attorney General Chuck Taylor launched an investigation after a Dumpster containing credit card numbers and receipts was found sitting outside a closed Indianapolis fitness center. Viewers first contacted RTV6 when the discarded personal information was found outside of…

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PA: Printing Company Accidentally Releases SSN’s In Derry Twp.

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Dissent

WGAL reports that Security Savings Systems of New Cumberland mailed 1099-G forms to taxpayers that exposed others’ Social Security numbers: On Tuesday, taxpayers in Derry Township received sheets of paper in the mail with the information of two taxpayers on it. These 1099-G forms list the amount of the person’s tax refund that they received…

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UK: £140,000 fine for Midlothian Council after sending child data to wrong people five times in as many months (updated)

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Dissent

A Scottish council has been fined £140,000 after repeatedly releasing sensitive information about vulnerable children and carers to the wrong people. Midlothian Council was guilty of five data protection breaches in as many months last year. It is the first local authority in Scotland to be fined by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), which is…

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CORRECTED and DELETED: NC: Documents Containing Personal Info Found In Dumpster

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Dissent

CORRECTION: The  incident reported in this entry was from 2009. Don’t know how it showed up as news in my newsreader, but my apologies for reporting it again as a new incident and am deleting it.

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GA: Tough Questions for staffing agency about discarded documents

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Dissent

Bernard Watson reports on a breach involving Staffing Solutions that they had reported last week. In this case, I think a business may get a bad rep for something that really wasn’t their fault at all. See what you think: “We will keep your information secure.” That is the mantra Shawn Poole has based his…

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CA: School Accidentally Throws Out Books and Student Information

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Dissent

Ugh. Dozens of federally-funded books and documents containing families’ personal information were thrown in a dumpster at a elementary school and have been cleared out by school officials. […] There were also boxes filled with personal documents, including applications for free and reduced price meals containing financial information. “Documents that should have been shredded but…

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