From the Associated Press, news that Angelique Mullings, a WellPoint employee, was sentenced to more than two years in prison for stealing the identities of about 40 health care professionals to buy cell phones: Authorities say Mullings worked for WellPoint, Inc., a licensee of Anthem/Blue Cross and Blue Shield. They said she had access to…
Category: Breach Incidents
Email error adds insult to injury
Karin Spaink’s blog summarizes a Dutch data leak: Many people who were duped by DSB Bank going broke, joined the foundation Hypotheekleed (’mortgage pains’). One of them suddenly started to receive e-mails containing the names, data and mortgage information of other members. Apparently, this happened because one of the employees of the foundation entered the…
Check cashing business throws out documents with Social Security numbers
Denae D’Arcy reports: A man made a disturbing find in North Knoxville Thursday evening. Hundreds, maybe thousands, of documents with personal information were dumped behind a shopping center. […] When a 6 News crew arrived at Fast Cash in a shopping center at 5100 Clinton Highway, they found documents scattered around a dumpster behind the…
Improper disposal of hundreds of loan applications raises security concerns
Roman Gokhman of the Contra Costa Times reports: The financial and personal details of about 300 property loan applicants were compromised when confidential documents were mistakenly tossed into an outdoor waste bin. The paperwork, belonging to FHG Finance, a home loan business at 548 Contra Costa Boulevard, was discarded last week by a cleaning crew…
More breaches revealed on OCR’s site
In addition to the breaches that we already know about from the media, I periodically scan OCR’s list of reported breaches to see what we didn’t know about. Here are two other breaches that I posted to PHIprivacy.net, but that also belong here because they involve SSN and not just healthcare information: Pediatric Sports and…
Coincidence or….?
A glance at NYS’s Consumer Protection breach log for May shows that the state received 12 notifications yesterday — and all of them were hacking incidents. Twelve received in one day? Only one of them has been reported on this site previously (Monoprice). The numbers indicate the reported number of NYS residents affected: 05/06/2010 –…