NY Offers Credit Monitoring After Tax Mailing Gaffe - Via PogoWasRIght - Privacy News Headlines:

The New York City Department of Finance has sent tax forms to thousands of people in defective envelopes that allowed Social Security numbers to be seen from the outside. It's offering the recipients free credit monitoring services.

The finance department mailed 2007 tax forms for unincorporated businesses in envelopes that were too big to about 12,000 people. It says the recipients' Social Security or employee identification numbers were visible through the windows on the envelopes.

Source - My Fox Raleigh

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