Paul Muschick reports that a woman found unshredded paperwork from Berks & Beyond Employment Services in an Allentown recycling center. The papers included job applications, complete with SSN, job histories, and personal details, as well as employee time sheets and other personal information. Chris Garner, owner of Berks & Beyond, told me a limited amount…
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Il: Garbage truck driver finds top secret Navy docs
A military garbage truck driver prevented a potentially devastating IDF information leak on Wednesday, when he discovered highly classified documents from the office of the Navy’s chief of staff while emptying out his vehicle at the Hiriya trash dump site in central Israel. Read more on Times of Israel.
NZ: Problem gamblers’ privacy breached when list tossed in footpath bin
Nancy El-Gamel reports on a breach that reminds us of how important it is that confidential records be kept, well, confidential: The names and photos of 56 problem gamblers on a secret TAB list were stuffed into a public rubbish bin in Hamilton and found by a passer-by. The 33 pages of private and confidential…
Massachusetts sues lawyer-realtor for alleged violations of data storage, records disposal, and security breach laws
Katie Johnston of the Boston Globe reports that Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey has sued Duxbury lawyer and real estate broker Michael Haney after approximately 120 boxes with his clients’ real estate closing files were found “waterlogged and exposed to the elements” on a former client’s property in 2014. More than 1,200 Massachusetts residents are thought…
New Mexican dental patients’ records found dumped along West Mesa
KRQE reports: An Albuquerque man said he found hundreds of medical records dumped on the West Mesa. The medical records include people’s addresses, insurance information and social security numbers. The business responsible for them said it has no idea how the paperwork ended up there. Things at Cottonwood Comfort Dental in Albuquerque weren’t so comfortable on…
OCR should fine entities that close and just dump patient records
Seriously. How many times will see news reports of how medical practices closed their doors and just dumped patient records? Here’s another case this week, reported by WSFA in Alabama, who made great efforts to track down someone – anyone – who might be able to help identify the culprit (and yes, I use the…