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Another mortgage company out of business leads to more documents in the dumpster

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2008-03-19 14:57:40 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Sheriff's Deputies clearing the office space a few days ago Evan] So am I safe to assume that the Genesee County Sheriff's Deputies actually had a hand in the poor handling of sensitive documents? Perhaps they could have been more careful and taken the time to identify sensitive documents before throwing them in the dumpster Since that time,...
 
Tags: company, abc12 news team, news, dumpster, documents, sheriff, sheriff talks, company isare, abc12 news
 
 
 
 
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Houston law firm threw confidential client information in the trash

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2008-07-17 14:59:25 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Sheriff's deputies uncovered hundreds of people's personal financial files that had been discarded in a dumpster in northwest Houston on Monday Reference URL KHOU-TV News (original KHOU-TV News (follow-up Report Credit Jeremy Desel, KHOU-TV Response From the online sources cited above Harris County Sheriff's deputies uncovered hundreds of...
 
Tags: houston, weber, weber wishes, houston attorney, bankruptcy, khou-tv news, news, bankruptcy files, william weber
 
 
 
 
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2.2 million billing records missing on stolen backup tape

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2008-06-11 12:33:06 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...sheriff believes the thief probably thought the box contained money Evan] What it contains could probably be turned into a helluva lot of money The investigation indicates that the theft was probably a random car burglary, and there is no evidence that the information on the tapes has been accessed or used for identity theft," said Salt Lake...
 
Tags: tape, backup tape, backup, information, personal information, backup information tapes, million, utah, million people live
 
 
 
 
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Sensitive Milwaukee County information posted to Web

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2008-02-13 17:06:24 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Sheriff's Department, the House of Correction, the district attorney's office, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Personnel Review Board and the Division of Economic and Community Development The county will supply the group with an edited version of the same county spending database, after department heads get a chance to...
 
Tags: milwaukee county, milwaukee county officials, information, county, county officials, sensitive personal information, confidential information, county clerk, county records crg
 
 
 
 
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Student hacks Broward Schools and accesses personal information

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2008-03-24 13:22:48 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Sheriff's Office and a district investigations unit are reviewing the case; even the U.S. Secret Service has volunteered to help, said Joe Melita, head of the district's special investigative unit Evan] Sheesh, this has to be intimidating to a high schooler It's a serious matter any time the protection of employee records comes into...
 
Tags: information, personal information, students, information technology team, school students, school, information security, pinnacle gradebook, pinnacle
 
 
 
 
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Illinois Eye Center warns patients of identity theft

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2008-04-04 12:40:39 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Sheriff's Department was alerted about the possible identity theft in January and has received seven or eight reports total, Lt. Mark Greskoviak said The female suspect, whose name has not been released, worked as a receptionist at the center from June to November 2007 and police believe she now lives outside Illinois Evan] Segregation of...
 
Tags: eye center, center, illinois eye center, illinois, identity theft, confidential information, information, confidential patient information, occasional
 
 
 
 
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Personal information from two Colorado mortgage companies found in dumpsters

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2008-05-07 22:20:50 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Sheriff's investigators finally found the owner of Cove Creek and talked him into retrieving the files, many of which had private information, including Social Security numbers and credit history Evan] Mr. owner guy, will you please come get your stuff and the personal information that was entrusted to you? According to zoominfo a guy named...
 
Tags: mortgage files, numerous mortgage files, personal information, information, complete mortgage files, personal information poorly, files, cove creek mortgage, cove creek
 
 
 
 
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Did the Rent-a-Center manager knowingly expose personal information?

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2008-05-12 15:05:33 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Sheriff's deputy arrived at about 10:30 a.m. and called workers from Rent-A-Center, which acquired RentWay in 2006, to clean up the mess In dress slacks and business shirts, Rent-A-Center employees crawled in a Dumpster on Friday afternoon it was unclear how long the files were in the lot and who may have accessed the sensitive information...
 
Tags: store manager, store, store dumpster, rent-a-center store, rent-a-center, security, rent-a-center store manager, social security cards, rent-a-center employees
 
 
 
 
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Spring ISD mobile devices stolen along with personal student information

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2008-05-18 23:01:44 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Sheriffs Department and every effort is being made to recover the equipment The district has reported the incident to the Texas Education Agency Test Security Task Force and will comply with whatever action they require This incident is highly regrettable and the district is looking at potential security precautions to protect the students...
 
Tags: information, students personal information, personal information, isd, students, individual students, isd laptop computer, external flash drive, drive
 
 
 
 
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From the Eye of a Legal Storm, Murdoch's Satellite-TV Hacker Tells All

2008-05-30 15:00:00 by Kim Zetter in Wired Security
 
...sheriff's report showing that fingerprints lifted from the seized electronics equipment sent to Tarnovsky's Texas mail drop belonged to an associate of Menard, raising suspicions again that Tarnovsky might have sold pirate Nagrastar card