Sewell Chan reports: On Tuesday, New York City rolled out the next phase of its NYC BigApps competition, an initiative that will supply local programmers and developers with a stockpile of raw municipal data sets to build applications for the Web and mobile phones. But in what appears to have been an accidental data breach,…
Category: Breach Incidents
Highmark changes it procedures in wake of BCBS breach
Another lesson learned the hard way? In the aftermath of the theft of a Blue Cross Blue Shield laptop, Highmark, Inc. notified 50,000 doctors that their Social Security numbers or tax ID numbers were on the stolen laptop containing their unencrypted data. A BCBS employee had reportedly breached policy by downloading the unencrypted database to…
TN: 68 Blue Cross Blue Shield hard drives stolen (updated)
Yet another Blue Cross Blue Shield breach in the news this week, although it’s not clear yet whether any PII or PHI are involved (see update below). Joe Legge reports: Monday, Blue Cross Blue Shield workers noticed something missing here at their Eastgate offices. Dozens of computer hard drives weren’t where they were supposed to…
IT analyst at NY Fed Reserve Bank pleads guilty to ID theft scheme
A former employee of the Federal Reserve Bank in New York, Curtis L. Wiltshire, pleaded guilty today to one count of bank fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft for having obtained student loans using stolen identities. Kenneth Wiltshire, Curtis Wiltshire’s brother, pleaded guilty to related charges on September 15, 2009. According to the…
850,000 doctors could be hit by potential data breach from insurer’s stolen laptop
Emil Berry reports on a recent breach that was originally described as affecting “tens of thousands” of people. Now it appears that the breach was much bigger: A file containing identifying information for every physician in the country contracted with a Blues-affiliated insurance plan was on a laptop computer stolen from a BlueCross BlueShield Assn….
Scam hits more e-mail accounts, MS blocks accounts
Jonathan Fildes reports: The scale of a phishing attack originally thought to be directed at Hotmail may be larger than previously thought. BBC News has seen a list of more than 20,000 more names and passwords that have been posted online. The list contains e-mail addresses and passwords from Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL, Gmail and others…