Stephanie Steitzer reports that names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers of roughly 28,000 state retirees were e-mailed without the required encryption to the Kentucky Retirement Systems by Walgreens Health Initiative, its pharmacy benefit provider. Affected retirees were notified by letter from WHI, who informed recipients that the mistake was “solely the responsibility of…
Category: Breach Incidents
Ca: Huron University College data exposure
The University of Western Ontario has posted a notice on its site: Huron University College is seeking assistance in reaching former students, former applicants to Huron, or former residents in Huron’s dormitories whose personal information may have been accessed during a computer server security breach. Huron is an independent, self-governing institution affiliated with The University…
6 from Hudson indicted in $6M credit card fraud, identity theft swindle
Michaelangelo Conte of The Jersey Journal reports that six Hudson County residents have been indicted on charges they operated a credit card fraud and identity theft ring that swindled financial institutions out of more than $6 million. The six are charged with identity theft, theft by deception, money laundering and conspiracy. Read more.
University of West Georgia notifies students and faculty of data theft
The Associated Press is reporting that the University of West Georgia has notified nearly 1,300 students and faculty that their personal information was on a laptop that was stolen last summer. The laptop, which contained names, addresses, phone numbers and Social Security numbers, was in possession of a professor. The university says that it only…
Australian hacker sentenced for 3 years
Following up on the story reported last week, Renai LeMay and Alex Serpo of ZDNet Australia report that David Anthony McIntosh, the former CSG employee who crashed several government services at Berrimah Prison, Royal Darwin Hospital and the Supreme Court on May 5 last year and who deleted over 10,000 public servants from the system,…
Central Ohio Transit Authority employees notified their SSN disclosed
Debbie Gebolys of The Columbus Dispatch reports that more than 900 current and former COTA employees recently learned that their Social Security numbers had been sent to 51 health-insurance companies who were bidding on providing disability insurance to COTA. This was apparently not the first time this type of thing had happened. In 2006, COTA…