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Weather Shield Data Breach (2012)

Weather Shield

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Disclosed

January 1, 2012

5199 days ago

Records

Undisclosed

Confirmed

Root Cause

Unknown

Industry

Manufacturing

Description

A total of 55 current and former Weather Shield employees across the country discovered that someone had stolen their identities and filed fraudulent tax refunds. Several employees who were victims of identity theft in 2012 discovered that they had been affected again when filing their taxes in April of 2013. It is unclear how the 2012 or 2013 breaches occurred.