[Dataloss] TX: Forms with Employee Personal Information Discovered

[Michael Hill, CITRMS]

http://www.newschannel5.tv/2007/12/17/984027/Forms-with-Employee-Personal-Information-Discovered


School district says document slipped through the cracks 

BROWNSVILLE - Forms with employee personal information littered the fence of a Brownsville school district warehouse. 

NEWSCHANNEL 5 found confidential letters with names, bank account numbers, and Social Security numbers in plain sight. The forms may be more than ten years old, but they each contain information that's still valuable. 

We ran one of the names we found. NEWSCHANNEL 5 learned that person is still employed with the school district. She didn't want to talk to, so we spoke to district spokesperson Drue Brown. "When you made us aware of it, we took immediate action and spent the afternoon cleaning them up," she says. 

We've learned the district has a department responsible for maintaining and destroying old records. They're in charge of shredding this type of information. 

District leaders say the documents simply slipped through the cracks. Brown says, "Perhaps some of these records were in a file cabinet that wasn't completely cleaned up. And they somehow ended up here." 

Just after NEWSCHANNEL 5 contacted the district, workers were out in numbers cleaning up the mess. 

"We were surprised by it," Brown says. "This is not our standard practice." 

The district tells us they'll make every attempt to keep this from happening again. The documents NEWSCHANNEL 5 found will be returned to the district





Michael Hill 
Certified Identity Theft Risk Management Specialist
IDT Consultants
404-216-3751


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