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TX: Resident Finds Unshredded Copies of Personal Documents in Apartment Dumpster

Posted on March 13, 2014 by Dissent

Alicia Neaves reports: On Tuesday morning, a resident of the Palms Apartments in Odessa made a disturbing discovery. […] NewsWest 9 remained with the resident until police arrived to pick up the bag. Once officers arrived, apartment management kicked us off the property. To find out if it was the apartment complex who threw these…

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UK: Loan firm ‘Buy As You View’ promises probe after papers found in street

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Dissent

Paul Kelly reports: Red-faced bosses have apologised after papers outlining debts owed to a high-interest loan company by South Tynesiders were found discarded in the street. Liz Garlinge, 55, was leaving her home in Honeysuckle Avenue, West Harton, South Shields, when she saw the highly sensitive document lying on her drive. She was stunned to…

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UK: Failure to adequately redact results in undertaking for Treasury Solicitor’s Department

Posted on February 26, 2014 by Dissent

In the UK, the Treasury Solicitor’s Department has signed an undertaking with the Information Commissioenr’s Office. As described in the undertaking, there had been a number self-reported breaches involving exposure of individuals’ information due to incomplete redactions or failure to fully check: The Information Commissioner (the ‘Commissioner’) was contacted by the data controller on 6…

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OR: Office landlord fined after trashing mortgage records in course of eviction

Posted on February 24, 2014 by Dissent

Eliot Njus reports: The owners of a Northeast Portland office building have been fined after a state regulator said its cleaning service threw 30 boxes of mortgage records into an unlocked trash bin while evicting a mortgage company. The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services has ordered 122nd Group LLC to pay $5,000 for failing to…

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Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children notifies vendors after tax information exposed

Posted on February 14, 2014 by Dissent

The Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children joins the ranks of those who experience a mailing error that exposes vendors’ Form 1099 to others. The Form 1099 contained vendors’ names, addresses, monies earned, and Social Security numbers.  In this case, some vendors received their own Form 1099 as well as a second…

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UK: Councillor rapped for speaking to newspapers about data breach

Posted on February 11, 2014 by Dissent

Remember when documents with sensitive information on Victoria Climbié were found in abandoned council offices? Ruth McKee reports: A councillor who blew the whistle on confidential data found lying in the middle of the former Southgate Town Hall has been punished for revealing the extent of the security breach. Henry Lamprecht, ward councillor for Southgate Green…

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