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State Farm call center worker misused customers’ credit card information

Posted on September 23, 2013 by Dissent

Two days after a State Farm auto insurance customer made a payment on their insurance policy over the phone, the customer called State Farm back to report that their credit card information had been misused.  State Farm investigated, and one month later, on September 4, the insurer notified the Maryland Attorney General’s Office that they…

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Errors by both Sentry Life Insurance and the Department of Labor expose 401k participants’ information online

Posted on September 23, 2013 by Dissent

Sentry Life Insurance is a service provider for many companies’ 401k plans.  In that capacity, they assist clients in the preparation  of, and submission of, the plans’ Form 5500 to the Department of Labor. On July 2, Sentry discovered that some plans’ Form 5500 submissions to DOL contained an attachment with the individuals’ names, Social Security numbers,…

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One year after data theft, Primedia (RentPath) employees and applicants notified of breach

Posted on September 23, 2013 by Dissent

I could have sworn I had posted something about the Primedia (formerly RentPath) breach, but maybe I just tweeted it and forgot to blog it. Thankfully, Jeff Goldman of eSecurity Planet provided a preliminary media report in June.  This blog post incorporates an update to the incident. Back in May, attorneys for Primedia notified at…

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Experian reports another breach of its credit report database (update 2)

Posted on September 20, 2013 by Dissent

I haven’t been seeing as many breach reports by Experian this year, which could be a good sign, although it just could be that some states haven’t updated their breach lists in while. In any event, one just showed up on New Hampshire’s site that elevated an eyebrow. In a letter dated September 16 signed…

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AZ: Job applications with personal information found in dumpster

Posted on September 19, 2013 by Dissent

Kristine Harrington reports that someone using the dumpster behind Denny’s in Phoenix discovered approximately 200 unshredded job applications. The manager says it never should have happened.

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Swisscom Acknowledges Data Security Breach

Posted on September 18, 2013 by Dissent

Neue Zürcher Zeitung NZZ was in possession of four data tapes that apparently originated from Swisscom’s data centres, the editorial office has informed the company. The records concerned are apparently backup files from 2008 to 2010 containing internal Swisscom data, including e-mails. It is still not clear to Swisscom whether customer data are also stored…

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