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…
Category: Exposure
(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…
Confidential Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services documents found blowing in the street; office manager and area director suspended
Robb Hays reports: A large trash bag filled with copies of dozens of social security cards, bank records, birth certificates and other confidential documents was discovered by a passerby on a downtown Baton Rouge street and delivered to the 9NEWS I-TEAM. The paperwork appears to be connected to applicants for various forms of public assistance….
Kr: SK loses more customer information
Kim Mi-ju reports: Cell phone numbers of 38,000 users of a discontinued traffic information service run by an affiliate of SK Group were leaked online and the company said yesterday that it completely deleted related data on Sunday. According to sources, a real-time traffic information text message and Web site service Entrac, operated by SK…
Some Iowa inmates could have seen guards’ data
KGAN in Iowa reports: Starting a new program for inmates at an Iowa correctional facility could turn out to be a horrible deal for prison employees. Personal information about the guards may have made to the inmates. An unwanted letter in Saturday’s mail has Steve Gray worried about identity theft. “Name and social security number…
Yale notifies 43,000 that their Social Security Numbers were exposed (updated)
A Yale Alumnus posted the following: If you get an “oops” letter from Yale about your Social Security number having been compromised, you are not alone. University spokesman Tom Conroy provides the following statement: Yale University is notifying 43,000 individuals that a 1999 computer file containing their names and Social Security numbers was inadvertently made…