Health insurer WellPoint Inc. will pay the State a $100,000 settlement over a data breach where the personal information of thousands of WellPoint customers was potentially accessible via the Internet. The settlement resolves a lawsuit that Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller’s office filed under a new data-breach notification law passed in 2009. “This case should…
Month: July 2011
A rotten Apple employee arrested; accessed customer data
Well, here’s something I don’t usually see – a breach notification from Apple. On June 16, Apple informed the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that a former employee had accessed customer data of customers while employed at one of Apple’s retail stores. The store’s location was not provided. The total number of customers whose data…
Morgan Stanley investors notified that lost CDs contained their personal and financial data
Christopher Maag reports: Personal information belonging to 34,000 investment clients of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney has been lost, and possibly stolen, in a data breach. According to two letters sent to clients, and obtained by Credit.com, the information includes clients’ names, addresses, account and tax identification numbers, the income earned on the investments in 2010,…
(Update) UPMC Shadyside Hospital employee pleads guilty to HIPAA violation
As a follow-up to a breach previously reported involving an employee of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Shadyside Hospital, multiple media sources are reporting that the employee pleaded guilty last week to to taking the names, social security numbers and birth dates of 19 patients there. Read more in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The U.S. Attorney’s…
CA: 1200 Sutter Gould Medical Foundation patients’ records tossed into dump
Paper medical records belonging to approximately 1,200 patients who visit Sutter Gould Medical Foundation physicians in Stockton and Lodi were lost May 27. They ended up buried in a landfill. The documents – all in one box – contained patient names, addresses, diagnostic test results, provider notes and correspondence, Social Security numbers, disability forms and…
OH: Personal info found at trash bin in Warren
Matthew Steffy reports: Legal documents from a defunct law firm bearing personal information including Social Security numbers and dates of birth on thousands of documents surfaced in an open trash bin in downtown Warren this week. The documents include names, addresses, spousal and child information, Social Security numbers, dates of birth and income earnings. The…