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Company Uses Negotiated Checks For Packing Material!

Not much surprises me any more with regard to some of the silly things that organizations do with printed PII that put the involved individuals at risk.

However, I was surprised when I watched an ABC News report this morning...

"Old Checks Still Worth Something."

A "Texas company" used cut-up negotiated checks as packing material!

The checks appeared to be cut into wide strips, and the video showed how easily they were put back together to see all the information, including bank account numbers, names, addresses, signatures, the party to which they were made out, and everything else you put on a check.


What were they thinking!?

They apparently weren't thinking.

There was no information given about the "Texas company," but this very well could be a violation of the FACTA Disposal Rule.

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Posted by Rebecca Herold on August 21, 2008 8:49 AM |

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Holy Cow, they really did that? That is so scary!

Posted by: FatFighter | August 22, 2008 2:03 PM

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Rebecca Herold,CISSP, CIPP, CISM, CISA, FLMI, has been providing information security, privacy and regulatory assistance and services to organizations from a wide range of industries for over 18 years. Rebecca was instrumental in building the information security and privacy program while at Principal Financial Group, which was awarded the CSI Information Security Program of the Year Award in 1998. IT Security ranked Rebecca as one of the top 59 IT security influencers, and Computerworld put Rebecca their list of the 25 top privacy experts and on their list of the 9 best privacy consulting firms. Rebecca has been CPO for two consulting organizations, and has had her own information privacy, security and compliance business since 2004. Rebecca has written chapters for several books, dozens of articles, and has been writing a monthly privacy column for the CSI Alert newsletter since the beginning of 2001, and is working on her 11th book. Some of her other books include The Privacy Papers, Managing an Information Security and Privacy Awareness and Training Program, The Definitive Guide to Security Inside the Perimeter (Realtime Publishers), The Shortcut Guide to Improving IT Service Support through ITIL (Realtime Publishers), and The Practical Guide to HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance. In addition, Rebecca is the leader of The Realtime IT Compliance Community where she posts to her IT Compliance weblog. You can contact Rebecca at: rebecca_herold@realtimepublishers.net.