The student newspaper at Valdosta State University in Georgia has an article on how the university will be revising their IT security as a result of an audit last year. The story contains reference to a breach the university experienced last year that does not seem to have been reported in the media or the…
Category: U.S.
Update: BlueCross ID theft warnings top 500,000 and growing
Dave Flessner reports: Another 301,628 current and former members of BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee soon will be getting letters alerting them that their personal information was included on computer hard drives stolen from the insurance company last year. The Chattanooga-based health insurer announced today that the number of affected customers with potentially compromised identification and…
KC Art Institute employees may have been victimized in potential identity theft
About 145 employees at the Kansas City Art Institute have been notified of potential identity theft in connection with the disappearance of a computer from the campus. An Apple computer that contained Social Security numbers, dates of birth and other personal information about the school’s professors and staff employees was stolen from the human resource…
Woman worms into D.C. taxpayer accounts
Michael Neibauer reports: A mentally ill woman exploited a loophole in D.C. tax office online systems to gain unauthorized access to taxpayer accounts, establish herself as the owner of dozens of businesses and file returns on their behalf. Details of the online trespass, by a woman who law enforcement sources say believed herself to be…
CA: SSNs Printed On Thousands Of Envelopes
KCRA reports: Envelopes sent to thousands of Californians who get benefits from the Department of Health Care Services contained Social Security numbers on the mailing labels. The department said Monday the mailings went to 49,352 people receiving adult day health care benefits. “At this point, there is no evidence that unauthorized parties have acquired or…
AvMed: Data of 208,000 at risk after Gainesville theft
The Gainesville Sun reports that AvMed Health Plans announced that personal information of some current and former subscribers may have been compromised by the theft of two company laptops from its corporate offices in Gainesville on Dec. 11. The information includes names, addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers and protected health information, according to an…