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Lawsuit: 29,000 say Kaiser hid security breach

Posted on October 15, 2009 by Dissent

Maria Dinzeo reports on a class action lawsuit stemming from a 2007 breach that was first reported earlier this year: Twenty-nine thousand Kaiser employees say the company did not inform them for more than a year about a security breach that left their personal information vulnerable to thieves. One employee says a woman stole her…

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Laptop containing sensitive info stolen

Posted on October 12, 2009 by Dissent

It’s not yet clear what kind of “sensitive” information was involved, but: A 37-year-old Kingston woman reported her laptop computer containing sensitive information was stolen from her garage Saturday. The woman told Kitsap County sheriff’s deputies she put the laptop, which belongs to Boeing, inside her garage after removing it from her car Thursday. She…

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Police look into shredder bin theft

Posted on October 11, 2009 by Dissent

Linda Golz reports: Authorities are investigating the thefts this week of large bins used to store paper waiting to be shredded from three FirstMerit Bank branches in Streetsboro, Westlake and Elyria. […] FirstMerit spokesman Rob Townsend said just one of the stolen containers actually had customer and bank information in it. Townsend said he is…

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Highmark changes it procedures in wake of BCBS breach

Posted on October 7, 2009 by Dissent

Another lesson learned the hard way? In the aftermath of the theft of a Blue Cross Blue Shield laptop, Highmark, Inc. notified 50,000 doctors that their Social Security numbers or tax ID numbers were on the stolen laptop containing their unencrypted data. A BCBS employee had reportedly breached policy by downloading the unencrypted database to…

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TN: 68 Blue Cross Blue Shield hard drives stolen (updated)

Posted on October 6, 2009 by Dissent

Yet another Blue Cross Blue Shield breach in the news this week, although it’s not clear yet whether any PII or PHI are involved (see update below). Joe Legge reports: Monday, Blue Cross Blue Shield workers noticed something missing here at their Eastgate offices. Dozens of computer hard drives weren’t where they were supposed to…

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850,000 doctors could be hit by potential data breach from insurer’s stolen laptop

Posted on October 6, 2009 by Dissent

Emil Berry reports on a recent breach that was originally described as affecting “tens of thousands” of people. Now it appears that the breach was much bigger: A file containing identifying information for every physician in the country contracted with a Blues-affiliated insurance plan was on a laptop computer stolen from a BlueCross BlueShield Assn….

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