Seen at Karin Spaink’s blog: After requesting a directory of the services of city X, a citizen of that city was sent not that directory, but a file containing the names of the circa 2800 people living in that city who may not renew their passport or who have to hand in their passport. Reasons…
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CT: Aetna Documents Found On Side Of Road
A cabinet full of documents with sensitive information was found sitting on the side of the road. Now, Aetna has some questions to answer. Donna Guiel, of East Hartford, said she made the discovery about a month ago and on Friday, she gave the documents to investigators with Aetna Insurance Co. Channel 3 Eyewitness News…
NY: Medical records found in DMV’s dumpster
Eli George reports: Who dumped medical records, containing confidential patient information, at the DMV? These are some of the most sensitive, intimate personal medical records a person can have. A county worker was tossing garbage into the dumpster at the Auto Bureau in Cheektowaga and spotted boxes of files that just didn’t belong there. Erie…
UK: Council says sorry after security breach
Council chiefs have apologised after the National Insurance numbers of thousands of pension holders were disclosed. The NI numbers were printed in the address fields of 6,600 pension newsletters from Northumberland County Council and were clearly visible through the cellophane of the envelopes. Staff at the third-party mailing company used to send out the newsletters…
NV: School district denies illegal record disposal accusation
Stephanie Carroll reports: The Churchill County School District denied that student records are being disposed illegally, an allegation made recently by information protection professional Tom Considine during his radio show “Who Complys.” Considine said CCSD employees contacted him last year asking about proper disposal of student records, claiming the district dumps special education and psychological…
FL: AT&T Info Dumped In Local’s Recycle Bin
As I noted earlier this month in discussing ABC’s coverage of firms just dumping paper records without shredding them, Florida law doesn’t seem to prohibit such disposal. Now there’s another story out of Florida, this one covered by News4Jax, that also involves improper disposal of personal and financial information on hundreds of people: Jessica Menendez…