Morning mail call.
I may already be a winner, check.
$10,000 from Publishers Clearing House, indeed.
Ah, tax forms…with the social security number on the label. WTF?
From Tulsa World:
Tax forms were sent out to thousands of people in Wisconsin with their Social Security numbers on the mailing labels. A vendor hired by the state of Georgia lost a computer disk with the names and Social Security numbers of 2.9 million people. A disk with similar information disappeared in Rhode Island.
While some of the biggest and most spectacular privacy breaches in recent years have happened at large corporations, state governments have also mishandled or failed to protect some of the sensitive information entrusted to them — data that identity thieves would love to get their hands on.
Yet most states don’t have statewide privacy officers in charge of safeguarding data, statewide policies on protecting sensitive material, or standing procedures for responding to breaches.
Sloooowly things improve. Yet, still not fast enough.