Leslie Tripp reports: Hundreds of pieces of mail fluttered onto interstates in eastern Missouri Sunday after the back door of a contractor’s semi carrying mail for the U.S. Postal Service popped open. The mail was scattered along 70 miles of highway near St. Louis, according to Postal Inspector Dan Taylor, who said the tractor-trailer was…
Category: Paper
Papers with sensitive info found blowing around Winnipeg
Pieces of paper with the names of former clients of the Salvation Army and information about past incidents connected with the charity were found on a Winnipeg street Wednesday – raising concerns about privacy. The documents from 1999 somehow ended up on Isabel Street near Ross Avenue on Wednesday afternoon. […] The documents belong to…
WA: Suspected ID thief may have over 1,000 victims
Drew Mikkelsen reports: An Olympia man arrested Thursday may have planned to steal the identities of 1,000 people, said Thurston County Sheriff John Snaza. Anthony Vaughn is held on 50 counts of identity theft at the Thurston County Jail. A veteran detective said Vaughn was likely part of the largest identity theft ring in county…
Update on White Rock Networks breach
Yesterday, I reported on a breach reported by WFAA in Texas, where boxes of intact personnel records, some containing Social Security Numbers and even medical information on employees, had been found next to a public dumpster in Plano. As Brad Watson of WFAA reported, White Rock Networks had gone bankrupt in 2006 and its assets were…
Sensitive Scottish court records discovered at recycling bank
A press release from the UK ICO: The Scottish Court Service breached the Data Protection Act by failing to take sufficient steps to prevent court documents containing sensitive personal details being accidentally disposed of at a local recycling bank in Glasgow, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The ICO was first made aware of…
TX: Personnel records found dumped outside Plano library
Brad Watson reports about dozens of boxes containing sensitive information: “I picked up a notebook that was sitting on top, I flipped it over and saw pages and pages of Social Security numbers,” she said. “I got concerned.” Inside the cartons, News 8 reviewed hundreds of names, Social Security numbers, medical records, home addresses and…