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Freeman Company notifying employees after W-2 mail mix-up
Yes, it’s that time of the year again, and this week’s tax records mailing error report concerns Freeman Company in Texas. Freeman uses ADP to prepare their W-2’s, and ADP, in turn, contracts with a mailing firm. In this case, the unnamed mailing vendor had a glitch with their technology that resulted in incorrect barcodes…
Easter Seal Society of Superior California notifies parents that children's health information was on laptop stolen from employee's car (updated)
The Easter Seal Society of Superior California is first sending out notification letters concerning a laptop stolen on December 10. From their notification letter: On December 10, 2013, an Easter Seal Society of Superior California (“Easter Seals”) employee’s vehicle was broken into and a number of items, including a work-issued laptop computer, were stolen. Upon…
Bank of the West notifies former job applicants of data security breach (update2)
If you applied for a job at Bank of the West prior to December 19, 2013, your personal information, including your Social Security number, driver’s license number, and date of birth, may be in the hands of a hacker. The bank isn’t certain whether personal information was acquired by unauthorized individuals who were able to…
Backup drive with 4,676 patients' information stolen from San Jose surgeon's office
K. Min Yi, M.D., a surgeon in San Jose, California, reports that patient data were on an external hard drive stolen during an office burglary on Memorial Day Weekend in 2013. The backup drive was in a locked drawer at the time of the burglary. A copy of her notification letter has just been posted…
South San Francisco Embassy Suites Hotel notifying guests of card breach (update2)
If you stayed at the San Francisco Airport- South San Francisco Embassy Suites Hotel in 2013, check your mail for a breach notification letter. It seems the hotel recently discovered that two computers at their front desk were compromised by skimmers during 2013 and guests’ names, card numbers, expiration dates, and CVV2 codes were captured….