The Indychannel reports: The attorney general’s office is suing health insurance giant WellPoint Inc. for $300,000 for waiting months to notify customers that their medical records, credit card numbers and other sensitive information may have been exposed online. The lawsuit filed Friday in Marion County accuses WellPoint of violating a state law that requires businesses to…
Category: Breach Incidents
How do you say, “Maybe we shouldn’t have stored your credit card data” in Japanese?
The Japan Foundation of Los Angeles recently notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of a security incident involving an unnamed vendor who hosts their web site at jfalc.org. According the October 21 letter filed by their attorneys, on September 18, JFLA discovered that the names, dates of birth and credit card information for those…
UH West O’ahu security breach affects Mānoa students
The University of Hawaii has just posted a breach notice concerning the incident described in an earlier blog entry: The University of Hawai`i – West O`ahu (UHWO) is notifying approximately 40,000 individuals that their personal information may have been compromised. The exposure occurred when a faculty member inadvertently uploaded files containing data including names, social…
University of Hawaii-Manoa Breaches exposes sensitive info on 40,000 students
It’s bad enough when your system gets hacked. It’s worse when the breach is self-inflicted. This just in: The University of Hawaii-Manoa has breached the personal information of 40,101 students who attended between 1990-1998 and 2001, including names, social security numbers, dates of birth, addresses, demographic, and detailed academic performance data. … The information was…
Students’ personal information posted online inadvertently
Lina Savickas reports: The personal information of about 400 Benedictine students and a few non-students within the Election Judge Training Program was inadvertently posted online on the program’s Facebook page, according to Executive Vice President Charlie Gregory. Personal information including Social Security numbers, dates of birth, e-mail addresses and telephone numbers was on a spreadsheet…
Former University of California IT employee sentenced to one year and a day for ID theft
Cam Giang was sentenced today to 12 months and one day in prison for his role in an identity theft scheme, United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced. A restitution hearing in this case has been scheduled for Jan. 20, 2011. Giang, 31, of San Francisco, Calif., pled guilty on July 22, 2010, to one count…