Jaclyn Cashman reports: “MassMutual can confirm that, despite comprehensive procedures and diligent practices to protect confidential and private data concerning employees at MassMutual and several of its subsidiaries, a limited amount of personal employee information maintained in a database by an outside vendor (engaged by the company) may have been subject to unauthorized access. However,…
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Government accused of ‘cover up’ over lost farmer tapes
The Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has been accused of a “cover up” after two back-up tapes went missing containing the banking details of around 100,000 farmers. The tapes are said to have gone missing this spring, with Defra officials having been informed in July. The tapes were lost by contractor IBM,…
CalOptima Reports Potential Loss of Patient Claims Information (updated)
From CalOptima’s web site: ORANGE, Calif. (October 23, 2009) – CalOptima has identified the potential loss of past medical claims information for approximately 68,000 of its members that was stored on electronic media devices. CalOptima’s claims scanning vendor sent the electronic media devices to CalOptima through the U.S. Postal service by certified mail. On Tuesday,…
UK: Private medical records for sale
Jo Macfarlane reports: The confidential medical records of patients treated at one of Britain’s top private hospitals have been illegally sold to undercover investigators. Hundreds of files containing intimate details of patients’ conditions, home addresses and dates of birth are being offered for as little as £4 each. The files were sold by two men…
Personal data for thousands of former adult students go missing
Kipp Hanley reports: Nearly 80,000 former adult education students’ personal information stored on a flash drive was lost in Richmond on Sept. 21 according to a Virginia Department of Education press release issued Wednesday. The information went missing after being given to a representative of Virginia Tech’s Center for Assessment, Evaluation and Educational Programming for…
Two exposure incidents
Karin Spaink, a Dutch blog that tracks breaches there, recently reported two breaches: In August, “Press agency GPD managed to allow Google to index its contact database stored on their intranet, thus releasing phone numbers of thousands of well-known Dutch people. Among those whose contact information was published, were the Dutch prime minister; politician Geert…