Around 700,000 CA In-Home Supportive Services payroll data records missing
 
Payroll data and other sensitive personal information of around 700,000 people who provide or receive home care for the elderly and disabled as part of California's In-Home Supportive Services program is missing in mail. The Social Services office said that Hewlett Packard, which manages the data controlled by the office, notified them of the breach after a physical package containing microfiche with thousands of entries of payroll data became untraceable.  
For further information:
(1) http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/05/ca-social-services-office-looses-hundreds-of-thousands-of-recordson-microfiche/
(2) http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0513-homecare-workers-20120513,0,1683191.story
(3) http://advancedweb.net/?p=638

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