In June, Trade Center Management Associates in Washington, D.C. became aware that employee data had been stolen from a TCMA facility. Employee information on the stolen equipment included names, SSN, and in some cases, fingerprints. Among those with data on the device were 284 Maryland residents. The TCMA describes itself as a private sector…
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Update: State Farm employee was selling client data
I’ve previously noted that some state logs (like NYS’s) indicated that State Farm had reported some insider wrongdoing. Their notification to Maryland, dated June 24, provides additional details. According to their letter, an employee of a Florida State Farm agent was discovered to be selling lists of customer information to a third party. State Farm…
Verizon Wireless hacked
On August 4, Verizon Wireless notified the Maryland Attorney General’s Office of a security incident. According to their letter, an investigation revealed that sometime between February 8 and May 19, 2010, someone unrelated to Verizon Wireless accessed a system containing some customer information. The types of customer information that the intruder could have accessed included…
Farmers Insurance agent takes 4 mos. to notify policyholders of data theft
Computers stolen from a California agent of Farmers Insurance on March 16 contained sensitive policyholder data, but the policyholders were not notified of theft until the end of July. According to a notification sent by Farmers Insurance to the Maryland Attorney General’s Office, data on the stolen computers for an unspecified number of policyholders included…
Update: ALDI breach potentially affects 8,000 in Maryland alone
Although ALDI has repeatedly said that the tampering of pin pads affected only a “limited number of stores” in their 1000+store chain, the number of customers affected continues to grow as new reports emerge. In a report to the Maryland Attorney General’s Office dated October 1, Terry E. Pfortmiller, ALDI Vice-President of Finance and Administration,…
Destination Hotels & Resorts update: hack may have occurred in 2009
Although Destination Hotels & Resorts never responded to my inquiry about how many guests were affected by a breach reported previously on this blog, a notification their law firm filed with the Maryland Attorney General’s Office on July 20th indicated that 1,354 residents of Maryland were also affected by the hacking incident that occurred between…