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dumpster diving in San Antonio TX
From: Henry Brown <hbrown () knology net>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:57:26 -0500
From WOAI.com http://tinyurl.com/6pz25e The News 4 Trouble Shooters found a gold mine at a local drug treatment center. Hundreds of private, personal records thrown out with the trash. Information that, by law, must be protected. A tip led the Trouble Shooters to the dumpster behind Treatment Associates, located at 701 San Pedro, near downtown. We pulled out more than 40 file folders with private drug treatment records. Records detailing medical histories of clients with diseases and drug addictions. We also found documents showing sexual abuse and information needed to steal someones' identity, like social security numbers. "The concern of course is that this information was released," said Mary Walker, the spokesperson for Child Protective Services. Walker says she is troubled that CPS records with such personal information were just thrown out in the trash. "This causes us serious concern, what you've shown us are records that have very private information in them, records that are confidential and certainly nothing that we would release," said Walker. _______________________________________________ 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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