So many tips, so much news with very little time. Here are this weekend’s personal data exposure reports:
Written by MCruz on September 10th, 2006 with 2 comments.
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Current and former account holders of the Circuit City credit card are being notified that their personal information was thrown out with the trash.
Chase Card Services said it mistakenly tossed out computer tapes with the personal information of Circuit City card holders. It said it believes the tapes, inside a locked box, were compacted, destroyed and buried in a landfill.
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Chase said it has begun notifying customers and is monitoring affected accounts and has not identified any misuse of personal information. A free, one-year credit monitoring service is being offered to individuals whose social security number was on the thrown out tapes.
Source: Reuters Kudos to Patricia for the tip!
Written by MCruz on September 8th, 2006 with no comments.
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A contractor’s mistake has the TSA warning its former employees that their personal information were mailed to the wrong addresses.
Accenture, a contractor that handles TSA personnel, sent 1,195 documents to the wrong former employees during a recent mailing, according to a letter signed by Richard Whitford, TSA assistant administrator for human capital.
The documents were standard forms that are sent to employees after they leave the government. The forms often list an employee’s Social Security number, birth date and salary. It’s unclear how many forms had that information.
Source: USA Today
Written by MCruz on September 6th, 2006 with no comments.
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Approximately 38,000 current and retired City of Chicago worker’s personal data were stored in a laptop that was stolen back in April 2005. The computer was stolen from an employee’s home who worked for Nationwide Retirement Solutions.
The company says the risk anyone might access the data, which included names, addresses, phone numbers, birth dates and Social Security numbers, is low because the computer was protected by a complicated password and a user identification, according to the city.
The company is in the process of notifying affected people and is offering one year of free credit monitoring.
Source: Chicago Tribune Thanks to MaxxP for the tip!
Written by MCruz on September 1st, 2006 with no comments.
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