Reuters reports on the WellPoint breach that’s in the news this week: […] The company believes that the security glitch was exploited to access information on 940 insurance applications. Separately, unauthorized viewers accessed spreadsheets that “in rare cases” contained Social Security numbers, Sanders said. WellPoint is doing forensic work to identify the applicants whose data…
Category: Breach Incidents
Aetna recovers personal information of N.J. policy holders thought to have been discarded
Note: this is a follow-up to a breach previously described here Susan K. Livio reports: HARTFORD, Ct. — Aetna is alerting nearly 5,000 policy holders in New Jersey and Pennsylvania that it recovered a filing cabinet containing social security numbers and other personal information that it had thrown away when it moved out of an…
New York hospital loses data on 130,000 via FedEx
Robert McMillan reports: New York’s Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center is notifying patients that their personal information may have been compromised after seven CDs full of unencrypted data were FedExed by a hospital contractor and then lost in transit. The CDs were sent by the hospital’s billing processor, Siemens Medical Solutions USA, around March…
CA: Officials investigate potential information breach
Some personal information from a computer science and engineering class at Cal State San Bernardino may have been disclosed. Information from one class roster file containing names and social security numbers was inadvertently made public through a Web server. The files were promptly removed upon discovery on June 10, and university officials are investigating if…
NJ: Social Security numbers, federal tax numbers released in error by Sparta Board of Education
Seth Augenstein reports: A local activist’s recent public records request resulted in some extra information — namely, some personal Social Security numbers, and some federal tax identification numbers. Jesse Wolosky, a well-known Sparta activist who recently lost a bid for a Township Council seat, put in a request for a list of vendors to the…
Commentary: Is WellPoint blaming others for breach?
Steve Ragan has a statement from WellPoint that he posted on Tech Herald. While the company doesn’t deny that the actual cause of the exposure was a faulty security update, from there, it reads as if they are pointing fingers everywhere but at themselves. WellPoint mentions the role of the plaintiff’s attorney(s): The reason that…