SRA International notified the Maryland Attorney General’s Office on January 20 that it had recently detected a virus on its network that may have allowed compromise of data. As of the date of the report, SRA’s security experts were reportedly still in the process of trying to eradicate the virus. Because the security experts could…
Category: U.S.
Ameriprise notifies customers of online breach
Ameriprise Advisor Services, Inc. (formerly H&R Block Financial Advisors) notified the Maryland Attorney General’s Office on December 24 of a breach involving a third-party vendor. According to the notification (pdf), AASI uses a third-party vendor to provide clients with online access to their accounts (usernames and passwords). The unnamed vendor notified them on December 17…
MassMutual sent clients’ personal info to another client
Earlier this week, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company notified (pdf) the Maryland Attorney General’s Office that on January 6, it had inadvertently sent a report containing personal information to another client. The recipient immediately notified MassMutual of its error and reportedly shredded the document without further dissemination. The total number of individuals affected by the…
Stolen Educational Testing Service laptop contained readers’ personal info
A laptop stolen from an employee’s desk in mid-December contained names and social security numbers of people employed by the Educational Testing Service (ETS) as readers, according to a report filed (pdf) with the Maryland Attorney General’s Office this week. The laptop, which had been locked into its docking station, does not appear to have…
IN: Personal Info Of More Than 8,700 Posted On State Site
The Social Security Numbers of more than 8,700 current and former state employees were inadvertently posted on a state Web site last week, officials said. The information of 8,775 employees who had filed a worker’s compensation or disability claim between 2005 and 2008 was uploaded in a file to the Indiana Department of Administration’s procurement…
MD: Missing HCC flash drive contained personal info on 70 DSS clients
On December 5, Harford Community College learned (pdf) that a flash drive containing personal information had been misplaced by an employee at its WAGE Connection office in Aberdeen, Maryland. The personal information of 70 Department of Social Service clients participating in the WAGE Connection program was on the missing drive and included their name, social…