An employee taking out the trash at a Southside office plaza found boxes of employees’ W-2 forms, copies of their driver’s licenses, Social Security cards and other personal information, all from the tax company Jackson Hewitt. Cynthia Kessler said she found out Monday some of her personal information, including her Social Security number, driver’s license…
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UC Davis Medical Center notified 900 patients of data theft
Bobby Caina Calvan of the Sacramento Bee reports: UC Davis Medical Center officials said financial documents and other data containing information about 900 patients were stolen in an August burglary of a West Sacramento courier service. A med center spokesman, Charles Casey, said the affected patients were notified of the incident, and “the risk of identity…
Ca: Thousands of old papers with personal info on guests found behind Best Western Primrose
Chris Doucette reports: Thousands of slips of paper with personal information of past guests from around the world were found blowing in the wind in an alley behind a downtown hotel Friday morning. And many of the old documents, found around 7:30 a.m. scattered next to a dumpster behind the Best Western Primrose at Carlton…
Illinois AG sues Payday Loan Store over improper disposal of customer data
Attorney General Lisa Madigan today filed a lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court against The Payday Loan Store of Illinois, Inc. (PLS), for allegedly failing to safeguard customer data as promised. The Attorney General filed the suit after learning that documents containing customers’ personal information had turned up in trash bins outside four store locations….
A puzzling USAA Federal Savings Bank breach report and 10 more reports
Here are another 11 breach notifications submitted to the Maryland Attorney General’s Office. These were filed in May and June, and in all but one case, we didn’t know about them through the media or other sources. A breach involving USAA Federal Savings Bank had previously been noted on this site, but there’s more to…
Error by Veterans Affairs vendor exposed 3,936 veterans’ SSN in mailing
In its most recent report to Congress, the Veterans Affairs Department reported that on August 25, 6,299 out of the 69,366 “Benefit Summary” letters intended for veterans and non-veterans in Massachusetts were mailed to incorrect addresses. The letters contained the veterans’ and non-veterans’ benefit information including their claim number, which, in some instances, was the…