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[Dataloss] (fringe) NY: Was Your Identity in the Confetti?

From: lyger (lygerattrition.org)
Date: Sat Nov 07 2009 - 14:00:11 CST


http://www.wpix.com/news/local/wpix-confidential-confettii,0,5603178.story

What would the Yankees' 27th World Series win have been without a ticker
tape parade? Well, for some people it would have meant not losing pay
stubs, medical records, medical bills, and even the paperwork for an
invention patent that were all exuberantly tossed as confetti down to the
parade route below.

As thousands of revelers made their way up Broadway, careless office
workers drunk on the moment gave their colleagues a good reason to fear
identity theft. Within the discarded documents exclusively obtained by
WPIX, were the medical records of Bronx resident and Yankee fan Tammy
Sowells.

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