WHEC has the story, brought to them by a consumer who observed employees just tossing records with personal information: Mottshaw says he refuses to give his social security number out because his identity has been stolen before. When he was at the DMV in Henrietta he says he saw employees throw documents in the garbage….
Category: U.S.
Insurance startup leaks sensitive customer health data
Zack Whittaker reports: A software startup that provides independent insurance brokers with customer management software has exposed highly sensitive information on thousands of insurance policy holders. A vast cache of data was stored on Amazon S3 storage bucket by AgentRun, a Chicago, Ill.-based company founded in 2012 by Andrew Lech, a former independent insurance broker….
D.C. government data breach exposed nurses’ Social Security numbers
Fenit Nirappil reports: The D.C. Department of Health has warned hundreds of nurses that their personal information was inadvertently exposed in the online licensing portal and is offering them one year of credit-monitoring services. A nurse navigating the nursing board’s online portal somehow ended up on a nonpublic portion of a database that included the…
Coca-Cola notifying employees of insider breach (updated)
Coca-Cola is notifying employees that a former employee reportedly misappropriated their personal information. The number of employees or other individuals affected was not disclosed in the notification letter, but Coca-Cola reports that they learned of the breach on September 1, 2017 from law enforcement, who asked them to delay notification. Law enforcement recently gave Coca-Cola…
SimplyWell (Viverae) notifying Lincoln Electric System employees of of personal health info breach
It’s been a while since I’ve noticed a third-party breach of a wellness vendor, but here we go, it seems. SimplyWell (“Viverae”) works with Healthbreak, who provides wellness services to the firm in question. SimplyWell, Inc. (“SimplyWell”) recently discovered a data privacy incident that may affect the privacy of certain Lincoln Electric System (“LES”) employees’…
Data Leak May Have Affected Patients at Muir Medical Group IPA
NBC reports: Muir Medical Group patients who received treatment between November 2013 and February 2017 may have had their personal information shared without their consent, the company reported. The Walnut Creek-based firm discovered the leak on March 7 after a former employee took information with her before her employment ended, according to the company. This…