Highmark was notifying some 3,700 members on Wednesday that documents containing their names, policy identification and social security numbers were missing, the second such data spill for the region’s dominant health insurer in four months. In January, the company mailed a premium billing statement to Boscov’s Department Store, a client in Reading, according to Highmark….
Category: Lost or Missing
Wigan Council loses the data of 200 disabled residents
A Greater Manchester council has lost details of 200 disabled residents – a year after a previous security blunder. Wigan Council believes a memory stick containing hundreds of confidential details fell out of an employee’s pocket in January…. Town hall chiefs have suspended one member of staff and disciplined another in relation to the latest…
UK: ATL agrees to improve information security after thousands of union members’ personal details are stolen
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has found the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) in breach of the Data Protection Act after a laptop and memory stick were reported lost or stolen, containing the personal details of over 6,000 union members. The laptop was the property of the ATL and contained the personal details of…
77,000 Alaskans’ information missing; state settles with firm
Ted Land reports: Tens of thousands of Alaskans are trying to find out if their personal information is missing. Attorney General Dan Sullivan announced Thursday there’s been a massive security breach reaching the highest levels of state government. More than 77,000 Alaskans’ personal information is missing. No one knows where it went. […] On that…
(update) Missing National Archives hard drive contained more data than previously estimated
The National Archives breach involving White House staff and visitors seems to be one of those breaches where after almost a year, estimates of number of people affected are still emerging and increasing. An article on Roll Call indicates that personal information on 250,000 Clinton administration staff and White House visitors sent to the National…
Ie: Data tape with bill details lost
A data tape containing information from 12,799 electricity bills has been lost. Old billing information, names and addresses are included on the record of payment demands produced on August 10 last year, NIE Energy said. It did not contain any banking details but the electricity company has written to customers. The latest loss follows a…