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Update: BlueCross ID theft warnings top 500,000 and growing

Posted on February 10, 2010 by Dissent

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…

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KC Art Institute employees may have been victimized in potential identity theft

Posted on February 9, 2010 by Dissent

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…

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AvMed: Data of 208,000 at risk after Gainesville theft

Posted on February 8, 2010 by Dissent

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…

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Stolen Abbott Medical Optic backup tapes put employees and consumers at risk

Posted on February 7, 2010 by Dissent

Employees and customers of Abbott Medical Optics in Santa Ana, California are being notified that their personal information was on backup tapes that were stolen. On December 29, locked metal boxes containing the backup tapes were stolen from AMO’s Milipitas facility in California. The company informed the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of the theft…

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London moves to buy stolen bank data

Posted on February 5, 2010 by Dissent

Vanessa Houlder reports: Britain has approached Germany to buy data stolen from a Swiss bank in an effort to discover details of accounts hidden in the country by potential UK tax evaders. […] A number of German politicians, as well as the Swiss government, have criticised Berlin’s decision to purchase the stolen data. Although the…

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Swiss Data Affair Could Pay Off Handsomely for Germany

Posted on February 5, 2010 by Dissent

The extent of tax evasion by a number of German citizens with Swiss bank accounts appears to be far wider than originally thought. As the German government prepares to fork out a considerable sum for a CD with information about Germans suspected of dodging taxes, a newspaper reports that tax authorities could recover up to…

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