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….
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TX: (follow-up) Memorial Hermann worker sentenced for bank fraud, ID theft
As a follow-up to a case previously mentioned on this site: A former patient care assistant of a Houston area hospital has been sentenced to prison for bank fraud and stealing the identities of patients, United States Attorney Tim Johnson announced today. Nakeshia Brown, 30, of Houston, was sentenced to a total of 60 months…
Strangers Lose Personal Information in Non-Profit Mix-Up
Emily Rittman reports: A mistake by a not-for-profit group may put more than 200 landlords at risk for identity theft. The mistake sent tax forms and social security numbers to strangers. More than 500 landlords work with OACAC, the Ozarks Area Community Action Corporation. On January 28, 2010, half of those landlords didn’t receive tax…
Nl: University of Utrecht leaks pay slips
Karin Spaink summarizes, in English, a breach reported on security.nl: Randstad HR Solutions, which apparently takes care of the payroll information of the employees of the University of Utrecht, made an error. Employees did not only receive their own January pay slip and yearly overviews, but also slips and overviews intended for others. Randstad HR…
UK: Skipton faces fine for serious data breach
Jeff Prestridge reports: Skipton Building Society faces a heavy fine from the Financial Services Authority after a serious breach of data security procedures that resulted in more than 3,000 savers receiving financial details about other customers of the mutual. […] When Skipton mailed 108,000 account statements to savers last weekend, 3,115 went out with the…
IL: Social Security numbers found lying in street
Lisa Black and John Keilman report: When Elida Cruz worked in the banking industry, she assured clients that their personal information would remain confidential. So, imagine her horror when she learned that much of her own information, including her Social Security number, birth date, phone number and job history, had become astonishingly public, floating down…