Mike Benner and KGW.com Staff report: PORTLAND, Ore. — Providence Health Plans is re-issuing thousands of insurance cards after personal information was accidentally sent to the wrong policy-holders. Officials with Providence Health Plans say about 4,500 mailings were sent out with the incorrect group and member ID numbers, meaning that some policy holders received others’…
Category: Paper
No law, no investigation. So change the law!
On August 28, Missouri’s new data protection law went into effect. Fat lot of good it did for past clients of Nationwide Credit Counseling. When their financial records, replete with personal information, were found in bankers boxes in a dumpster , were they notified of the breach? No. And was any action taken against the…
Wells Fargo says “system error” to blame for mailing mixup
Bill O’Driscoll reports: When a Wells Fargo Bank statement showed up in Janet Levesque’s mail, the Reno address was right but the name wasn’t hers. She opened it to find her correct account number, but fearing for the safety of her identity, she said she called the bank headquarters in California and was told some…
UK: Action taken after tenants’ personal files go missing
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has found the Orbit Heart of England Housing Association to be in breach of the Data Protection Act after 57 paper files containing personal data went missing during an office move. Forty-two of the files were recovered in full, but 15 which contain a significant amount of personal data relating…
OR: State launches inquiry into records breach
Alan Gustafson reports: A state inquiry is under way to determine whether two state agencies broke Oregon law by dumping records with people’s names and Social Security numbers into an open recycling bin. Regulators with the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services are checking for violations of the Oregon Consumer Identity Theft Protection Act,…
NC: Kids’ Social Security numbers on school postcards
Josh Shaffer reports: The Wake County school system accidentally sent out about 5,000 postcards with students’ Social Security numbers printed on the front, a mistake that angered parents and will cost the district nearly $100,000 to remedy. On Tuesday, Wake schools mailed about 15,000 reminders asking parents to specify if they want to keep their…