RI: Benefit Concepts, Inc. / CompuPay Lost Paychecks

[security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>]

http://www.databreaches.net/?p=13931

Lost in transit, Thursday edition
September 16, 2010

Through its lawyers, Rhode Island-based Benefit Concepts, Inc.  recently 
notified the New Hampshire Attorney General.s Office that a package 
containing employee payroll checks and a CD with copies of the payroll 
checks went missing.

According to the notification letter, their vendor, CompuPay, had sent the 
package on July 19 via FedEx and it should have been delivered on July 20. 
FedEx believes that the shipment went missing at its Warwick, Rhode Island 
facility. Employees were not notified of the loss until September 3.

The payroll checks contained the employees. first and last names, Social 
Security Numbers, and bank account numbers. To prevent future problems, 
the company has asked CompuPay to mask SSN and encrypt the accompanying 
CD.
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