Noel Towell reports: A Centrelink manager who left dozens of sensitive client files on public transport earlier this year has been let off with a small fine and a reprimand. Departmental insiders say client’s private financial data is still being routinely carried around on trains and buses in and around the Queensland capital despite the…
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GA: Confidential paperwork found after theft
Rachel Stockman reports: Confidential customer information from a car dealership was potentially compromised after a theft. Delores Carston showed Channel 2 Action News file after file of confidential customer information, including her own, that she says somehow ended up on the street. A man found the paperwork and called her. “This is personal information, this…
New Hampshire Employment Security mailing gaffe discloses 2,700 benefits recipients’ info
Kathryn Marchocki reports that the New Hampshire Employment Security experienced a “software glitch” that resulted in 2,700 people collecting unemployment benefits having their personal information – including SSN – accidentally mailed to employers for whom they never worked. You can read more on The Nashua Telegraph if you have a subscription. I do not see any notice up on…
CO: 140-count grand jury indictment dismantles ID theft ring in Jefferson County
The Denver Channel reports on an ID theft ring: A Jefferson County grand jury has returned a 165-count indictment against a suspected ID theft ring that operated for six months in 2013. According to the indictment, members of the nine-member enterprise obtained personal and financial information of people and businesses and used this information to…
TX: Thief steals equipment, birth certificates from youth football team
Cory Smith reports: A youth football team from Dallas was celebrating its victory in a weekend tournament Sunday when a thief broke into their van in San Antonio. […] The thieves stole thousands of dollars worth of equipment and electronics. The players’ birth certificates were also stolen. “That’s what we’re most worried about, the birth certificates,”…
Ca: Privacy breach at city hall
Andrew Peplowski reports: Montreal police say officers had good intentions when they required city hall visitors to provide their names, dates-of-birth and driver’s license numbers on Tuesday evening. But they never should have left the sheets of paper, with all that information, behind at the end of the evening. A reporter from the Journal de…