Courtney Perkes reports: More than 200,000 Anthem Blue Cross customers this week received letters informing them that their personal information might have been accessed during a security breach of the company’s Web site. Only customers who had pending insurance applications in the system are being contacted because information was viewed through an on-line tool that…
Category: Exposure
Florida International University to notify students and faculty of exposure breach
jprenaud posts: College of Education students and faculty members whose names were found in an unsecure database last month are being notified this week that some of their information may have been accessible to the public. This database was used in connection with the College of Education students’ E-Folio software application, which captured students’ mastery…
Impulse Monitoring denies responsibility for NVMS breach
As an update on a breach reported earlier this month (here), Pamela Lewis Dolan of amednews.com reports: Meanwhile, Impulse Monitoring, a Columbia, Md., company that provides onsite and Web-based monitoring of neurological systems for patients undergoing spinal and brain-related injuries, is denying any responsibility in a case involving the June 6 dumping of several boxes…
Computer network breach at Virginia Beach Schools
From WVEC/13 News: A computer network security breach on May 6th allowed a student access to confidential student information. School officials say that a glitch in the system allowed the access, and it’s been fixed. Officials say the student accessed names, addresses, birthdays, social security numbers and more, all sitting at a library computer at…
AT&T hit by another data breach
AT&T customers logging into their accounts to pre-order the Apple iPhone 4 reported that they were given access to the account information of other customers. Despite entering their own usernames and passwords, the AT&T system would take them to another user’s account, according to gadget blog Gizmodo, which broke the news. Some users said when…
OH: Treasurer’s site exposes taxpayers’ information to hackers
Barbara Carmen reports: Franklin County property owners paying taxes online before Monday’s deadline might have innocently allowed thieves trolling cyberspace to snag checking-account or credit-card numbers. Computer experts installed safeguards in 2001 when the county adopted a second Web address, one thought to be more memorable. But many people were familiar with the old address,…