Ouch! Postcards sent out by the Universal American Action Network, a subsidiary of Universal American Insurance, had the recipients’ full Social Security Numbers in plain view. There were reportedly 80,000 postcards sent out last Friday to Universal clients around the country who are enrolled in their Medicare Advantage plan. WGAL reports: Universal American told News…
Category: Of Note
Massive card processor breach in Spain affecting Europeans
Back in October, this site reported that “tens of thousands” of Swedish banking customers and “tens of thousands” of Finnish banking customers had been affected by a breach in Spain that might involve a card payment processor. Today, the BBC reports that: Anyone who used a Visa or Mastercard credit card when in Spain may…
Former GEXA employee pleads guilty to computer intrusion
A former database administrator for GEXA Energy has been convicted following his guilty plea to intruding into his former employer’s computer database system. The conviction of Steven Jinwoo Kim, 40, was announced yesterday by United States Attorney Tim Johnson. At a hearing before U.S. District Judge Vanessa Gilmore, Kim admitted to recklessly causing damage to…
T-Mobile UK customer data sold
As an update to a report filed earlier today, Marc Chacksfield of TechRadar reports that it is T-Mobile at the heart of the data-selling scandal. The company released a statement: “T-Mobile takes the protection of customer information seriously. When it became apparent that contract renewal information was being passed on to third parties without our…
UK mobile phone data ‘was sold’ (Update 1)
Staff at one of the UK’s major mobile phone companies sold on millions of records from thousands of customers, the information watchdog says. Christopher Graham told the BBC that brokers had bought the data and sold it on to other phone firms, who called the customers as contracts neared expiry. The suspected trade emerged after…
Update: Stolen BCBS hard drives had data on 2 million insured
This is a follow-up to an incident first reported here. Dennis Ferrier reports: One of Tennessee’s largest holders of personal information confirms that an October theft from a Chattanooga office affects about 2 million of its clients. Blue Cross Blue Shield said 68 computer hard drives that contained Social Security numbers and other sensitive information…