Terry Maxon reports: AMR Corp. warned approximately 79,000 retirees, former and current employees Friday that someone stole a hard drive that contained personal information about them and their beneficiaries. “The data, which had been kept by AMR’s pension department, spans a time period from 1960 through 1995, and consists of images of historical microfilm files…
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Bank of New York Mellon granted summary judgment in lost backup tapes lawsuit
Brandon Tavelli writes: On June 25, 2010, Judge Richard Berman of the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York granted summary judgment to The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. in Hammond v. The Bank of New York Mellon Corp., dismissing in its entirety a putative class action lawsuit arising from the…
New York hospital loses data on 130,000 via FedEx
Robert McMillan reports: New York’s Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center is notifying patients that their personal information may have been compromised after seven CDs full of unencrypted data were FedExed by a hospital contractor and then lost in transit. The CDs were sent by the hospital’s billing processor, Siemens Medical Solutions USA, around March…
UMaine students who sought mental health services’ data compromised
The University of Maine police department is investigating a data breach of which has lead to the exposure of personal and medical information of almost 5,000 students between the summer of 2002 and this past week. According to a press release from the university, the servers which have been breached were the ones that stored…
UK: Secret report on ContactPoint database found ‘significant risks’ to security
Martin Beckford and Heidi Blake report: A secret report on Labour’s controversial child protection database found “significant risks” to security. The official study, which ministers refused to publish for more than two years, disclosed that “residual” dangers remained in ContactPoint despite efforts to make the system safe. It pointed out that security standards differed at…
WellPoint Security Breach Put At Risk Information For 470,000 Nationwide
The latest revelations on the Anthem/Wellpoint breach raise some questions for this blogger. Matthew Sturdevant reports that the recently disclosed Anthem breach may affect many more than the 230,000 recently reported: An online security breach put at risk the personal, financial and medical information of 470,000 WellPoint customers nationwide, including 5,600 in Connecticut, customers are…