The personal data, my friend, is blowin' in the wind by Fred Donovan in Fierce IT Security Old city records containing personal information about military veterans > were found blowing around Quincy, Mass., on Tuesday, the *Patriot Ledger* > reports <http://www.patriotledger.com/article/20140424/NEWS/140428486>. > > The records, which date from the 1950s through the 1980s, contain social > security numbers, bank account information, healthcare data and benefit > claims. A *Patriot Ledger* reporter found the records blowing around the > Russell Park area near Quincy High School. > > Henry Bradley, Quincy's acting director of veterans services, said the > department had hired shredding company Shred King to haul off 85 boxes > containing around 240,000 old veterans' records... > <http://oascentral.fiercemarkets.com/RealMedia/ads/click_lx.ads/fierceitsecurity/story/story/personal-data-my-friend-blowin-wind/2014-04-24/1054062637/Middle1/default/empty.gif/6e4559786d564e6335704d41426d6a54?x> > > <http://oascentral.fiercemarkets.com/RealMedia/ads/click_lx.ads/fierceitsecurity/story/story/personal-data-my-friend-blowin-wind/2014-04-24/1054062637/Middle1/default/empty.gif/6e4559786d564e6335704d41426d6a54?x>City > employees carried out a search on Wednesday in the Russell Park area and > found dozens of additional veterans' records blowing in the wind. http://ow.ly/wcSLv Read more: The personal data, my friend, is blowin' in the wind - FierceITSecurity<http://www.fierceitsecurity.com/story/personal-data-my-friend-blowin-wind/2014-04-24#ixzz305MOS0E2> http://www.fierceitsecurity.com/story/personal-data-my-friend-blowin-wind/2014-04-24#ixzz305MOS0E2 Subscribe at FierceITSecurity<http://www.fierceitsecurity.com/offer/signup_web?Viral-Tynt-FierceITSecurity-FierceITSecurity> List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message. mailto:[log in to unmask]
