Jenni Dunning reports: Residents are fuming after a cardboard box overflowing with personal information, including credit card numbers, was found outside a Hamilton cemetery yesterday. The discarded box [found “near a railway next to piles of broken tree branches and stinky garbage at the back of Hamilton Municipal Cemeteries’ headquarters on York Boulevard”], about the…
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SC: Private Information Found In Greer Dumpster
WSPA in South Carolina reports that a consumer tipped them that a dumpster was filled with sensitive personal and financial information. The story doesn’t name the business, but the video coverage names it as Merrimack Mortgage:
CA: Personal Documents Found In Dumpster
About 100 people’s personal information was thrown out along with unused, unopened books and learning materials, a KCRA 3 investigation revealed. A KCRA 3 insider watched Department of Parks and Recreation employees putting the materials in a Dumpster outside a parks building. KCRA 3 found several folders with important documents. One contained names, Social Security…
GA business says it accidentally trashed customers’ personal information
Bryan Baker reports: …. after a move to a new office, commercial real estate company Atkins & Associates says it accidentally tossed out real estate records into a dumpster behind its Augusta business. Off camera a company spokesperson tells 12 On Your Side they were purging real estate records that simply got mixed in with…
Impulse Monitoring denies responsibility for NVMS breach
As an update on a breach reported earlier this month (here), Pamela Lewis Dolan of amednews.com reports: Meanwhile, Impulse Monitoring, a Columbia, Md., company that provides onsite and Web-based monitoring of neurological systems for patients undergoing spinal and brain-related injuries, is denying any responsibility in a case involving the June 6 dumping of several boxes…
UK: Confidential papers stolen from policeman’s car
Police have fallen foul of the Data Protection Act after confidential paperwork was stolen from the boot of an officer’s car. The force has now been forced to take remedial action after it emerged the officer did not have a safe at his house and did not store the documents in his secure briefcase. A…