Rafia Shaikh reports: Trusted Western Union with your money? It appears the company may have lost your information to hackers. While the company talks about testing transactions with Ripple and expects higher sales in 2018, it seems it’s having some troubles with security. Some of the Western Union consumers started receiving a letter from the…
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UK: Scores of confidential files with personal details about abuse survivors were left in our office – and nobody seemed to care
Jennifer Williams reports: Scores of confidential social services files containing highly personal details about the lives of vulnerable young people – including abuse survivors – have been found abandoned in an empty Tameside office. The extraordinary data breach was discovered by the building’s landlord after drug service contractor Change, Grow, Live (CGL) left a fortnight…
RoxSan Pharmacy Notifies Patients of Breach That Occurred in 2015
There are a number of unanswered questions about an incident disclosed by RoxSan Pharmacy today. See what you think, starting with their press release of today: As part of its commitment to patient privacy, RoxSan Pharmacy (“RoxSan”) notified 1,049 patients of a potential breach of unsecured personal patient protected health information. RoxSan is notifying affected…
Entergy notifies employees of W-2 breach involving TALX portal
So this is not a W-2 phishing situation, but TALX – a wholly-owned subsidiary of Equifax – is working with Entergy to notify former and current Entergy employees whose 2016 W-2 data may have been acquired by criminals from the TALX portal. In a letter to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, counsel for TALX…
Sued by Aetna over botched mail notifications, KCC fires back, suing Aetna
“I sue you, You sue me, We both sue too easily. Too easily to let it show. I sue you and that’s all I know.” — wrote Art Garfunkel never. Alison Frankel reports: A day after Aetna sued the claims administrator Kurtzman Carson Consultants for exposing confidential medical information about Aetna clients in a settlement…
Aetna sues claims administrator KCC over botched notice in HIV case
Alison Frankel reports that Aetna is suing Kurtzman Carson Consultants for exposing plan members’ HIV status in envelope windows sent out in July as part of notifying members of settlement negotiations in other litigation matters. The privacy breach resulting from the exposure resulted in Aetna members experiencing a privacy breach involving sensitive information, and led…