H&R Block blunder exposes consumer data

[Deja Q]

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6016720.html

Some consumers may be dismayed to find their Social Security numbers printed on unsolicited packages from H&R Block, the result of a recent labeling blunder at the company.

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Yet H&R Block said the risk of identity theft based on the incident is low because the Social Security numbers are hidden in a long string of characters and aren't formatted like Social Security numbers with dashes between numbers.

Sigh.

[Aimah]

1. Now professional identity thieves know where to look. nt

[Deja Q]

2. That too.

H&R Blockheads had better take responsibility for this. Big-time. It's unfair ot their customers, to say the very least.