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Tax mailing has Social Security numbers visible
From: "Dissent" <Dissent () pogowasright org>
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 01:24:28 -0500 (EST)
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=547475 When Wisconsin taxpayers pull their packets of 2006 state income tax forms out of their mailboxes, tens of thousands of them will see something even less welcome than the annual reminder of how much money they owe to Madison. They'll see their Social Security numbers, printed right on the outside of the booklets - where identity thieves might be able to see them. About 170,000 tax booklets were mailed with Social Security numbers on the address labels because of a computer programming error at a printing company hired by the state, Meredith Helgerson, spokeswoman for the state Department of Revenue, said Friday. That's about 15% of the 1.1 million booklets mailed out to individual taxpayers who file their returns by mail, she said. [...] -- Privacy-related news and resources: http://www.pogowasright.org Privacy news headlines feed: http://www.pogowasright.org/backend/pogowasright.rss _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 143 million compromised records in 524 incidents over 6 years.
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