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ESMNE inadvertently discloses employee financial details

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2008-04-06 16:51:10 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...employees Number Affected 137 Types of Data Names, bank identification numbers and bank account numbers Breach Description I am writing to notify you that on March 20, 2008, Eastern Sales and Marketing New England ("ESMNE") learned that it inadvertently disclosed to one of its former employees your name, bank identification number and bank...
 
Tags: esmne, information, unique information, employee, personal information, additional information, confidential information, documents information, employee errors
 
 
 
 
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Former employee exposes Purdue Pharma personal information

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2008-05-12 18:44:52 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Employees Number Affected 5,000 Types of Data names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers and other pension related information Breach Description a former employee accessed a disk containing personal information about individuals employed by Purdue Pharma and its associated U.S. companies prior to December 31, 2003 and attempted to...
 
Tags: information, personal information, information security professionals, purdue pharma, purdue, information confidentiality, employee information misuse, employee, original disk
 
 
 
 
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Former Verizon Wireless employee charged with identity theft

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2008-04-27 09:43:33 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...employee of Verizon Wireless who worked in a telesales position has been charged with identity theft by the Somerset County, New Jersey Prosecutor's Office. According to Verizon Wireless, it appears that he may have taken sensitive personal information belonging to Verizon Wireless customers during his employment from November, 2003 to...
 
Tags: verizon wireless, verizon, verizon wireless customers, employee, identity, identity theft, theft, sensitive personal information, social security
 
 
 
 
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Employee fraud at Tenet Healthcare affects 37,000

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2008-02-18 10:26:45 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...employee working in the Tenet Healthcare Corporation billing center in Frisco, Texas has been convicted of identity theft. Terrence Brooks worked for the company for less than two years and stole names, Social Security numbers and other personal information belonging to at least 90 patients, but also had access to 37,000 Reference URL The...
 
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Cashing in on employee theft, or honest whistleblower?

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2008-02-25 14:03:19 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...employee of the company. As a result of this breach, Heinrich Kieber was convicted of "serious fraud, dangerous threats, unlawful compulsion, and suppression of documents." Now it appears that German authorities paid Mr. Kieber "as much as 5 million euros ($7.4 million)" for information about German account holders for the purpose of...
 
Tags: confidential, confidential data, kieber, named heinrich kieber, lgt, lgt trust, data, confidential information, information
 
 
 
 
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Stolen Griffin Electric laptop exposes employee information

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2008-04-11 11:40:02 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Employees Number Affected Unknown The New Hampshire State Attorney General was notified of "approximately 55 New Hampshire residents Types of Data employee names, social security numbers and dates of birth Breach Description Please be advised that our company experienced a potential data breach that occurred when one of our Human...
 
Tags: information, personal medical information, personal information, confidential information, data, information security professionals, data owner, data encryption products, data custodian
 
 
 
 
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Laptop stolen from a Kraft Foods traveling employee

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2008-03-04 13:26:48 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Employees Number Affected 20,000 Types of Data It contained the names and may have contained Social Security numbers, - Kraft Foods spokeswoman Cathy Pernu Breach Description A company-owned laptop was stolen from a traveling Kraft Foods employee that may have contained sensitive personal information belonging to employees of the company ...
 
Tags: kraft, sensitive personal information, personal information, kraft tape lost, kraft policy, employee, kraft foods employee, kraft foods, information
 
 
 
 
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Laptop stolen from Cross Country Staffing employee

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2008-02-12 12:27:55 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Employees Number Affected Unknown According to the breach notification "Approximately 45 New Hampshire residents were affected by this incident Types of Data Names, Social Security numbers, and addresses Breach Description A laptop was stolen from the car of an employee working for Cross Country Staffing on February 1st, 2008. The laptop...
 
Tags: sensitive personal information, personal information, cross country, information, confidential information, employees, cross country employees, laptop, information security breach
 
 
 
 
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Lasell College IT employee suspected in breach

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2008-03-21 11:44:01 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...employee without proper authority accessed the College's computer network. Despite our efforts, we could not determine if any personal information contained in the databases on the College's network was actually compromised -only that the opportunity for unauthorized access or use of personal information existed Reference URL Lasell College...
 
Tags: information, personal information, information security studies, lasell college, lasell, chief information officer, information systems, information technology, information security
 
 
 
 
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Nestle Waters North America employee affected by Systematic Automation breach

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2008-03-04 10:08:42 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...employees " dated 2/12/08 L.A. Dept. of Water of Power employees exposed " dated 2/19/08, and Clovis Unified School District employees receive notice " dated 2/21/08 Systematic Automation breach continued... " dated 2/22/08 Victims Employees of NWNA in 2006 Number Affected 8,245 Types of Data Names, dates of birth, addresses and Social...
 
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