Posts under ‘Data Breaches’

Around 22,000 Social Security numbers of Delaware state government retirees have been inadvertently posted online by a government contractor.
Aon Consulting included the Social Security numbers, gender and birthdates of about 22,000 Delaware state government retirees in a request for proposals for insurance companies interested in providing vision coverage to employees and retirees.  Retirees affected included [...]

A federal judge granted final approval on a settlement between Countrywide Financial Corporation and around 17 million customers on Monday.  This was a result of a large data breach that left the large group at a high risk for identity theft. Â
Bank of America, who now owns Countrywide, will provide free credit monitoring for the [...]

A Blue Cross Blue Shield employee has been charged with stealing identities of members.  Blue Cross Blue Shield said Latonia Davis a former employee tried to obtain credit by using health insurance information of 15 members.
The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office recently arrested Davis, 32, on a charge of identity theft.  Blue Cross Blue Shield said [...]

South Shore Hospital has informed around 800,000 individuals that their personal information may have been exposed.  This includes the personal information of patients, employees, donors, and other partners affiliated with the institution.
South Shore Hospital which is located in South Weymouth, Massachusetts posted the data breach notification on its website earlier this week. The hospital is [...]

Attorney General Richard Blumenthal believes The Connecticut Teachers’ Retirement Board owes its members identity theft protection and an explanation after waiting six months to inform them they lost a flash drive containing their personal information.
Blumenthal is urging the board to give the 58,000 plus members identity theft protection for two years and provide them with [...]

Citizens Property Insurance is in the process of warning policy holders that their checks may not have been received.  The public insurance carrier said someone filled out a change of address form at the post office for Citizens headquarters, redirecting the company’s mail to an apartment in Hialeah, Florida.
The company fears customers’ checks could be [...]

Anthem Blue Cross has notified around 230,000 of its applicants that their personal information may have been exposed.  The personal information included medical records and Social Security numbers.
This recent data breach is believed to be linked to a systems upgrade completed last October. A third-party security vendor certified that all proper privacy safeguards were in [...]

On Monday a Federal Trade Commission representative stated that current privacy laws fail to protect American consumers. Â
“We’ve put too much burden on the consumers to understand these policies,” said Kathryn Ratte, a senior attorney in the FTC’s consumer protection bureau.
This is most likely the result of a report that the agency plans to publish later [...]

The Los Angeles Firemen’s Credit Union has notified members that their private information may have been compromised.
The letter from the CEO Michael Maestro states that a small percentage of files were not properly moved when the Credit Union relocated. The personal data that could have been compromised included members names, addresses, phone numbers, account numbers, [...]

Federal prosecutors have charged a Massachusetts couple with stealing the names, birth dates, and Social Security numbers of dozens of Transportation Security Administration officers working at Boston’s Logan International Airport.  The Transportation Security Administration officers screen passengers and baggage at U.S. airports.
While there was no indication the information was passed to any militant group that [...]