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Class action lawsuit filed over Aetna hack (updated)

Posted on June 9, 2009 by Dissent

Courthouse News Service reports that a class action claim has been filed against insurance giant Aetna as a result of the recent security breach in which hackers gained access to personal information about 450,000 employees, former employees and potential employees. At the time, Aetna stated that the incident exposed the SSN of approximately 65,000 people….

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Update: T-Mobile confirms some data theft

Posted on June 9, 2009 by Dissent

I received an updated statement from T-Mobile overnight. Their revised statement confirms that at least some data were stolen, but they do not confirm that the breach described on the the Full Disclosure mail list was as extensive as the hackers claimed when they posted, “We have everything, their databases, confidental documents, scripts and programs…

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Crawford & Company employee pleads guilty to stealing claimants’ personal information

Posted on June 8, 2009 by Dissent

Last week, I posted a copy of a press release from the US Attorney’s Office in Maryland stating that Shanell Angelia Bowser had pleaded guilty to stealing personally identifying information of insurance claimants submitted to her employer, described as an unnamed medical insurance adjuster. The release also mentioned that Bowser and/or her co-schemers had also…

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Pointer: Commentaries on Merrick Bank v. Savvis

Posted on June 8, 2009 by Dissent

Last week, people started talking about a lawsuit first filed last year by Merrick Bank against Savvis Inc. The basis for the suit is that when Savvis audited CardSystems Solutions for compliance with the CISP security standards of the time, they gave them a clean bill of health. Merrick sued them after the breach, and…

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OH: Dining Services faces security debacle

Posted on June 8, 2009 by Dissent

Everdeen Mason of Ohio State University’s student paper, The Lantern, reports: It’s been a rough end of the term for Ohio State Dining Services. The director of Dining Services, Thomas Stevenson, has resigned from his position, and 350 student employees had their social security numbers accidentally leaked in an e-mail. “There is absolutely no connection…

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T-Mobile USA investigating claims they were hacked

Posted on June 8, 2009 by Dissent

An email posted to the Full Disclosure mail list on Saturday by pwnmobile_at_Safe-mail.net claims: Like Checkpoint Tmobile has been owned for some time. We have everything, their databases, confidental documents, scripts and programs from their servers, financial documents up to 2009. We already contacted with their competitors and they didn’t show interest in buying their…

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