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Lincoln National Life Insurance notifies over 26,000 of breach after user/pass distributed in brochure and on the web

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Dissent

Through its attorneys, Lincoln Life Insurance notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of a breach affecting over 26,000 clients of Lincoln National Life Insurance and Lincoln Life and Annuity Company of New York. On February 26, the company was notified by a vendor that a username and password combination reserved for authorized brokers and…

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St. Luke’s notifies employees that lost computer tape contains their personal information

Posted on July 20, 2010 by Dissent

Note: this incident is related to a breach previously reported on DataBreaches.net. Katy Moeller reports: St. Luke’s Health System has notified several thousand hospital employees in Boise, Wood River and Twin Falls that a computer back-up tape containing some of their personal information went missing in an office move. St. Luke’s spokesman Ken Dey said…

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MD: State employee posts nearly 3,000 SSNs online

Posted on July 20, 2010 by Dissent

Liz F. Kay reports: A Maryland Department of Human Resources employee was placed on administrative leave after posting the Social Security numbers and other personal information of nearly 3,000 clients of a state agency on a third-party website, a spokeswoman for the agency said. There’s no evidence that the information was used for identity theft,…

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FL: Thousands of personal record files dumped in recycling bin

Posted on July 20, 2010 by Dissent

By Lisa A. Davis and Neil Johnson report: On Sunday morning, Karen and Scott Keith made their monthly stop at the Land O’ Lakes Recycling center to drop off household recycling items. When they looked at the paper bin it was not only full to the point of pushing up the lid, it was practically…

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FL: Medical, credit files found in dumpster

Posted on July 20, 2010 by Dissent

Steve Gehlbach reports: They were tossed out with the trash. Dozens of boxes filled with personal records turned up Sunday night in an Orlando dumpster. […] Orlando Police are investigating where the documents came from and what, if any, crime was committed. Police say it was a cleaning man who put the old records in…

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South Shore Hospital Breach Could Affect 800,000

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Dissent

South Shore Hospital today reported that back-up computer files containing personal, health and financial information may have been lost by a professional data management company. The hospital had engaged the company to destroy the files because they were in a format the hospital no longer uses. The hospital has no evidence that information on the…

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