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SUMMARY

Tax preparer steals customers tax details to file false claims
Records 20
Record Types SSN NAA DOB
Breach Type Fraud Se
Data Family Unknown
Source Inside - Malicious
Organization H&R Block
Other Affected/Involved Organizations None
Lawsuit? YES
Data Recovered? NO/UNKNOWN
Arrest? NO/UNKNOWN
Submitted By: kirniki

TIMELINE

DateEvent
None. Add Data Incident Occurred
None. Add Data Incident Discovered By Organization
2010-04-08 Organization Reports Incident
None. Add Data Organization Mails Notifications
None. Add Data Records Recovered
2010-04-08 Lawsuit Filed
None. Add Data Arrest Made

SIMILAR INCIDENTS

recordsdateorganizations
20 2006-06-27 HSBC Holdings plc, Unknown Organization
40 2008-11-23 Wawa
19 2008-01-11 Bank of the West
33 2008-05-28 Hub City Ford

MAP OF INCIDENT LOCATION

Address: 3736 Riverdale Ave, Bronx, NY 10463, USA
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COSTS SUMMARY

Known Actual Costs

No known costs for this incident.

Estimated Costs

Ponemon Institute Direct Costs Estimate 1 $1,200.00
  1. Note that these estimates are based on the Ponemon Institute's 2009 direct costs figures from their 2009 Annual Study: Cost of a Data Breach. We multiply $60.00 by the number of records to obtain this figure. Keep in mind that depending on the breach, the direct costs are not always suffered by the breached organizations. In the case of credit card number breaches, the direct costs can often be suffered by banks and card issuers. Also note that this is only an estimate.

COMMENTS

by Anonymous on 2010-04-15 (almost 2 years ago)

H&R Block Winona, Minnesota, has a serious problem with a data breach. Ask Kelly Pearson, District Manager, about the terminated office manager she fired on May 1, 2009, for illegal disclosure of financial data. The terminated office manager, Becky Erdmann, is now a franchise owner of the very office she was terminated from. Watch out because your privacy is at risk at H&R Block.

by Anonymous on 2010-04-28 (almost 2 years ago)

H&R Block Winona Mall in Winona Minnesota is now owned by a five-person partnership called "Tax Smart LLC of Winona". The five partners are Craig Zeches, Sal Farner-Woxland, Sarah Beall, Larry Bartelson, and Becky Erdmann. Becky Erdmann was terminated by district manager Kelly Pearson and human resource field manager Jeff Rigler for a serious data breach of client information on May 1, 2009. H&R Block has now put all client data in jeopardy by allowing Becky Erdmann back into the company as part of Tax Smart LLC of Winona. On November 24, 2009, Kelly Pearson along with Mike Duncan welcomed Becky Edrmann back into the company with full knowledge that she was terminated for illegal disclosure of confidential client tax information.

by Anonymous on 2010-05-03 (almost 2 years ago)

Steve Carlton, the Human Resource Field Manager for H&R Block who works out of LeMont, Illinois, did not find it necessary to terminate Becky Erdmann's franchisee status after it was brought to his attention that Ms. Erdmann slipped back into the company under the cover of "Tax Smart LLC of Winona". Mr. Carlton also does not believe that H&R Block had any obligation to notify the public about the data breach for which Ms. Erdmann was terminated on May 1, 2009. H&R Block just won't take any responsibility for putting the public at risk of further illegal data disclosures in Winona, Minnesota, area.

by sromanos [Apprentice Investigator] on 2011-03-28 (11 months ago)

Lawsuit filed in state court: Sharon HAWA and Kevin and Deborah Johns v. H&R BLOCK TAX and Business Services 2010 WL 1618920 (N.Y.Sup.)

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