18,000 pay statements sent to wrong addresses

[security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>]

http://www.navytimes.com/news/2010/01/military_paystatement_errors_011410w/

18,000 pay statements sent to wrong addresses
By William H. McMichael - Staff writer
Posted : Thursday Jan 14, 2010 13:39:57 EST

Pay statements containing names and sensitive information about the 
finances of about 18,000 recipients of a special pay for disabled retirees 
were sent to wrong addressees last week, the Defense Finance and 
Accounting Service said Jan. 14.

The statements, a page of which contained information about annual 
increases in Concurrent Retirement and Disability Pay, mistakenly listed 
data including at least a portion of another recipient.s name, their bank 
or insurance company name, the amount of their allotment and the allotment 
type, DFAS spokesman Steve Burghardt said.

DFAS said there is .no indication. that any Social Security numbers, bank 
account numbers or phone numbers were listed on the erroneously mailed 
pages, which resulted from a production malfunction at the Defense 
Department.s Document Automation and Production Service, which printed the 
statements on behalf of DFAS.

DFAS is asking recipients of the misprinted statements, all of whom live 
in the Norfolk, Va., area, to destroy them and says corrected forms will 
be reissued.

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