The Brown University breach, which I had just included in another blog entry this morning, now has some additional details available. Julia Kim of The Brown Daily Herald reports that Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island accidentally sent paper records of more than 500 Brown employees and their family members to another subscriber company…
Category: Exposure
NMSU acts to address limited 2006 exposure of student personal data
Amanda L. Husson reports: The names and Social Security numbers of about 300 New Mexico State University students were inadvertently leaked through file-sharing software last fall, the university revealed Wednesday. Letters were mailed to the affected students last week. Shaun Cooper, NMSU associate vice president and chief information officer, said the risk of identity theft…
(update) Argos credit-card scandal worsens
Fresh doubts have been raised over the online security of high street retailer Argos, following a PC Pro investigation. Yesterday, we revealed that Argos was sending customers’ unencrypted credit-card numbers and security codes in order confirmation emails, potentially exposing them to online fraud. Now it’s emerged that those very same confirmation emails contain a web…
Patient data stolen from WFUBMC employee’s car
A bag containing a document with the names and Social Security numbers of 554 patients of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center was stolen from an employee’s locked car, medical center officials said today. The theft happened Feb. 15 in the parking deck of an off-campus outpatient clinic, officials said. The list did not include…
Illinois Department of Insurance won’t fine MetLife… for now
Would the state of Illinois have treated a bank or health care provider the same way if the same data had been exposed by them? The Illinois Department of Insurance says it won’t fine insurance agency MetLife, at least for now, after a 13 News investigation revealed MetLife files were thrown into a dumpster without being…
(update) Salmat caused St George data breach
Renai LeMay reports: Business process outsourcing firm Salmat has acknowledged responsibility for a data breach at St George that saw some customers of the Westpac subsidiary receive account details that belonged to other customers. “Our statement production company Salmat has acknowledged responsibility for the error which occured and is currently completing a full investigation,” said…