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Dumpster diving in San Francisco CA
From: Henry Brown <hbrown () knology net>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:32:32 -0500
http://www.ktvu.com/news/16961916/detail.html Major Security Breach At SF City Agency Exposed [...] Potentially thousands of people's personal information was exposed after a San Francisco agency left confidential files in unsecured curbside garbage and recycling bins. It's trash day in the city and the scavengers are out rifling through the garbage bins in a San Francisco alley. A KTVU cameraman caught two individuals with pick-up trucks stopping briefly before hauling away armloads of paper. No one challenges them as they steal from the unsecured blue bins. A closer look shows some of what they left behind: confidential documents from the San Francisco Human Services Department. [...] The agency handles the case loads of 8,000 San Franciscans and presumably safeguards the personal information it requires from its clients. [...] Trent Rohrer is the head of San Francisco Human Services. Rohrer showed KTVU how the personal information is supposed to be disposed of, placed in locked bins. "We do have a whole set of policies and procedures to prevent this stuff from happening, and clearly there are flaws in that," said Rohrer So are people simply not following procedures, or is there criminal activity going on inside the city department? "We'll go from top to bottom to see if there's an internal identity theft ring going on or if there's something external going on. We'll get to the bottom of it," said Rohrer. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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