Sun News Staff reports: On March 1, a financial advisor at US Bank, 5154 Wilson Mills, reported a laptop missing from his desk. The bank assistant manager noticed the laptop missing, but did not report it because she knew the financial advisor sometimes took the laptop home. The advisor told police the laptop contained sensitive…
Category: Breach Incidents
Former Houston bank teller pleads guilty to selling customer data
A Houston area bank teller has pleaded guilty to bank fraud arising from a scheme to steal thousands of dollars from his former employer’s customer accounts, U.S. Attorney José Angel Moreno announced Tuesday. Christopher Martin, 25, of Houston, appeared before United States District Judge Nancy Atlas and pleaded guilty to bank fraud admitting that while…
Class Action Suit Over Aetna’s Security Breach Is Dismissed
Shannon P. Duffy reports: Finding there was no more than speculative injury, a federal judge has dismissed a class action suit against Aetna Inc. filed in the wake of news that the insurer’s computer database may have been hacked and that personal data of up to 450,000 job applicants were potentially at risk. In Allison…
Thrivent Financial Suffers Breach Of Security
A Great Lakes-based insurer says it has suffered a security breach that may have compromised sensitive client data. Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, Minneapolis, says it experienced a break-in at one of its offices in Pennsylvania. A laptop computer was among the items stolen. The laptop had safeguards to protect sensitive information, including strong password protection…
Six newly revealed breaches on HHS site
It seems that using the new HHS/OCR web site will be even more difficult than I anticipated, as they are sorting breach reports by the date of breach, not date that the incident was added to their site, so I have to review the entire list to see what’s been added instead of just looking…
Update: UTMB sends more letters to possible ID theft victims
Cindy George reports that the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston breach reported last month was bigger than originally thought and more people have now been notified. At least 10 people have self-identified as victims of identity theft: One month after mailing letters to 1,200 patients whose confidential information may have been stolen in…