Just what South Carolina needed – another agency breach. Chris Meller writes: … the South Carolina Health Insurance Pool has begun notifying current and previous subscribers that their information has been leaked again. According to a letter dated December 18th a laptop owned by DeLoach & Williamson, an independent auditor contracted by SCHIP, was stolen from an employee’s car on October 16, 2013….
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Travelocity notifies customers after service providers’ employees misuse customer data
On November 22, Travelocity notified the Maryland Attorney General’s Office of a breach they first learned about on February 21. According to their letter, on that date they discovered that “over the previous several months, several employees of a Travelocity service provider had misused certain information to which they had access as part of performing…
NZ: FOI request results in data breach
Radio New Zealand reports: Wellington City Council has admitted its parking contractor accidentally leaked personal details of tens of thousands of motorists to a member of the public who made an official information request. It says contractor Tenix Solutions sent the man information relating to 120,000 tickets, including names and addresses of vehicle owners and…
National American University students’ financial information exposed, but what laws protect them?
Joe O’Sullivan reports: When National American University moved from one Rapid City campus to a new location earlier this year, the school or a contractor appears to have improperly disposed of thousands of sensitive student financial records that included names, addresses, loan numbers and Social Security numbers, according to documents reviewed by the Rapid City…
WI: Flash drive with personal information of thousands of City of Milwaukee employees stolen from contractor’s car
Dan Walker reports: A flash drive containing the personal information of thousands of City of Milwaukee workers was stolen along with the car of an employee of a health care firm that contracts with the city. The employee worked for Dynacare Laboratories, a contractor used by Froedtert Health Workforce Health in connection with the city’s…
Update: Former contract worker identified in theft of employee data in Maryland
Jessica Anderson provides this update on a previously reported breach: A man who stole personal data of thousands of Baltimore County employees while working as a information technology contract worker was identified Wednesday after being extradited from Florida. Baltimore County police said Courtney Calbert, 34, of Dundalk made off with employees’ banking information, Social Security numbers, and…