From the agency’s web site, dated today: A computer and protective case has been stolen from a locked state vehicle of an Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship employee. This theft has placed at risk the personal information of Iowans that are participating in the Department’s Horse and Dog Breeding Program. Through this program…
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AZ: Mesa police arrest former bank employee for identity theft
Stephanie Russo reports: Mesa police arrested a former bank employee who they said used a stolen identity and her own address to apply for credit cards, court records state. An investigation into a reported credit card theft led officers to Esther J. Hulse, a former Arizona Federal Credit Union employee from Phoenix, Wednesday morning, court…
Colorado agency notifies 105,470 clients of stolen hard drive
The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing is notifying 105,470 clients receiving state-provided health insurance that a stolen hard drive contained some of their personal information. A statement on the agency’s web site does not provide much detail and simply says: State officials discovered that there was an unauthorized removal of a computer…
(update 2) South Shore Hospital contractor named
Although not named in South Shore Hospital’s press release about a lost shipment of back-up files slated for destruction, the data management firm was named in the hospital’s report to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. It’s Iron Mountain Data Products (but see correspondence below from Iron Mountain that it was not them…
Financial information leaked from local credit card transactions
Laura Ann Sills reports: A WTVM viewer tipped us off to a website that had personal data, including credit card information, about him, and 50 other people. The list was a Google cache with a list of 60 customers of The Loft and Comedy Club in downtown Columbus that purchased tickets at the club from…
Lincoln National Life Insurance notifies over 26,000 of breach after user/pass distributed in brochure and on the web
Through its attorneys, Lincoln Life Insurance notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of a breach affecting over 26,000 clients of Lincoln National Life Insurance and Lincoln Life and Annuity Company of New York. On February 26, the company was notified by a vendor that a username and password combination reserved for authorized brokers and…