With Owensboro’s Executive Inn Rivermont about to be demolished, it has been open for the past month for people to walk through as the city tries to sell the contents. But the Messenger-Inquirer reports a group of women looking at items for sale stumbled on a box that contained employee records, including Social Security numbers…
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Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: Melanee R. Fretz, a former bookkeeper at the Kutztown Manor nursing home, was sentenced to nine months of house arrest for stealing the identity of an invalid resident. She was also sentenced to seven years of probation following the house arrest. More. Karina Orduna-Ramirez was charged with four felony counts of…
Personal info found outside DPS building
Hundreds of documents containing names, birth dates, driver’s license numbers and some Social Security numbers were found Wednesday littering the driveway of Galveston’s vacant Department of Public Safety office. Until contacted by The Daily News, the state agency was unaware of the office cleaning mishap, which occurred sometime after Hurricane Ike’s Sept. 13 landfall flooded…
Oh look, a dumpster! Let’s throw the papers here…
In Charlotte, North Carolina, a pastor found hundreds of documents with personal information in a dumpster out behind his church. The paperwork included Social Security numbers, bank accounts and credit histories. The documents came from a home improvement company, the Home Solution Pros. Eyewitness News found the business has two office listings. Read more on…
More breaches we didn’t read about
The Maryland Attorney General’s Office web site update reveals a number of breaches in the past few months that were never reported in the media. In addition to other news items reported earlier today on this site, here are some more newly revealed breaches: Pension Fund of the U.S.W.U. Local No. 74 reported that in…
10 investigates Ohio BMV for dumping records
Important safeguards that help airline security workers identify potential terrorists are being found inside Dumpsters in Ohio and neighboring states. Transportation Security Administration workers scrutinize each driver’s license to make sure that no one boards an airplane without proof of their identity, usually presented in the form of a driver’s license. TSA personnel scrutinize each…