MA Fires Printer After Privacy Breach

BROOKLINE, MA—An Indiana printer saw its contract terminated by the state of Massachusetts after some residents of this village were mailed tax forms with their neighbors’ social security numbers on them.

The state’s Department of Revenue canceled the pact after Indianapolis-based Allison Payment Systems—contracted for $235,000 to print and mail estimated income tax coupon books to 411,000 taxpayers statewide—erroneously sent 45 mailings that contained social security numbers to wrong addresses, the Boston Globe reported.