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HFAIT - NY Yankees Parade Confetti = Your PII!

HFAIT? Well, after cleaning up after the NY Yankees World Series parade - people started finding all sorts of lovely personal information scattered about.

The article is a bit scant on details, but enough that I regret reading this first thing in the morning. No coffee, no breakfast, and now I just feel nauseous.

We see examples of PII and other sensitive information being breached every single day in electronic form. We (security professionals) have a hard enough time preventing lost drives, dumpster diving, stolen laptops, poor coding, and compromised systems. But really? You guys got excited enough to throw fucking boxes of medical records and financial information out the window?

Sweet Christ, use your head!

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