For the second time in as many months, Lincoln National Life Insurance Company and Lincoln Life & Annuity Company of New York have notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of a security breach. By letter dated August 15, the company’s attorneys reported that due to a programming error that existed in the database’s search…
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Some of WikiLeaks’ Bank of America data destroyed
Reuters reports: Some internal Bank of America files obtained by WikiLeaks have been destroyed, according to a former close collaborator of Julian Assange, the whistleblowing website’s founder. In an email to Reuters, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, who last year was fired by Assange as WikiLeaks’ co-spokesman, confirmed that he had destroyed “roundabout” 3,000 submissions WikiLeaks received related…
(follow-up) TX Comptroller’s breach: few sign up for credit monitoring
Barry Harrell has a follow-up on the Texas Comptroller’s breach that affected 3.5 million Texans. I was interested to read that 100,000 people signed up for the offered credit protection monitoring, which is less than 3% of those offered it – at a cost to the state of $600,480. The state had originally offered those…
Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Flower Mound notifies patients of breach
Breach Notice: Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Flower Mound is notifying its patients of a breach of patient health information. Texas Health Flower Mound and Texas Health Partners, its business associate, are under a duty imposed by law to notify patients of breaches of patient information. A company-issued laptop of an employee of Texas Health Partners…
FTC Approves Final Orders Settling Charges that Credit Report Resellers Allowed Hackers to Access Consumers’ Personal Information
From the FTC: Following a public comment period, the Federal Trade Commission has approved final orders settling charges against three credit report resellers, SettlementOne Credit Corporation; ACRAnet, Inc.; and Fajilan and Associates, Inc., also doing business as Statewide Credit Services. The FTC alleged the companies did not take reasonable information security steps to protect consumers’…
Thirty-one Gifts, two breaches, and a bunch of notification letters
It must be headache-inducing enough to investigate one security breach. To discover a second breach while investigating the first, well, pass the Prozac. On August 8 , lawyers for Ohio-headquartered Thirty-One Gifts, LLC notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that while investigating how administrative credentials had been misappropriated and used to transfer some consultants’…