As an update to an incident previously reported, Gerald Garner Jr. reports: After learning that a handful of sensitive documents had been “discarded” in a local dumpster, Socorro County and county housing authority officials launched an investigation into the matter. In a joint agency press release — issued Monday, Sept. 28 — officials contend the…
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File Cabinet Purchase Leads To Identity Theft Concerns
Some former and current Panola School District, Oklahoma employees are learning that some of their employment records from 1998 and 1999, including W-2’s, were in file cabinets sold to the public. Now the people who bought the cabinets are declining to turn the records over to the school district without a court order and are…
State Requiring Prompt Med To Appear At Hearing About Dumped Records
As a follow-up to a breach previously reported, Kerri Hartsfield reports: The State Department of Justice is requiring an attorney for Prompt Med to appear at a hearing after hundreds of medical records were found in a dumpster and sitting alongside a street. Last month, a 2 Wants to Know investigation revealed that more than…
Authorities Investigate Financial Records Found in Dumpsters
South Carolina authorities are investigating piles of files found in dumpsters that contain financial records, tax filings, even social security numbers of people and businesses in Mount Pleasant and across the nation. According to ABC News in Charleston, many appear tied to the radio industry. As of today, it’s not clear who is responsible for…
NM: Sensitive Files Found In Dumpster
An Albuquerque, New Mexico Housing Authority official expressed dismay over reports that over 100 files containing sensitive personal information on former tenants had been found intact in a dumpster behind an apartment complex. The files appear to date back to the late 90s and early 2000. Now the Housing Authority is concerned that the bulk…
CO: University Hill shops burglarized
Vanessa Miller recently reported two burglaries in the Boulder, Colorado area that involved personal data: Jones General Store reported a break-in and theft of customer credit card receipts and Root of the Hill, a business in the same building, reported theft and extensive vandalism. Receipts and boxes of the business’ tax documents were taken from…