Katie Marriner reports an update to the Aviva insider data leak case: Admiral has said it is actively working with claims teams to mitigate the risk of a potential data breach after Aviva sacked two employees for giving customer data to claims farming companies. The Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department confirmed last month that two men were…
RI: AG Kilmartin Legislation Would Give Victims of Data Breaches One Free Year of Credit Monitoring
Citing the increasing rate in which consumers information is compromised due to data breaches at companies, Attorney General Kilmartin has authored legislation that would, among other things, require that entities who disclose a breach to a victim who is a Rhode Island resident must provide one year of credit monitoring at no cost to the…
Weds: House Financial Services subcommittee to hold hearing on data breaches
Julian Hattem reports: Data security will be back in the spotlight on Wednesday, when a House Financial Services subcommittee hears from top law enforcement, consumer advocacy and industry experts. The hearing will be the fifth Congress has held since Target revealed late last year that a hacker had stolen millions of users’ information during the…
Thermo Fisher Scientific notifies employees after laptop with their SSN is stolen
Thermo Fisher Scientific is notifying 93 employees that their unencrypted names and Social Security numbers were on a laptop stolen from an employee in Boston on December 23. The firm learned of the breach on January 4. Those affected are being offered a year of free credit monitoring with EquiFax’s Credit Watch Gold service. You…
Eureka Internal Medicine notifies patients of potential disclosure of their information
Eureka Internal Medicine in Eureka, California notified patients of a HIPAA breach that was discovered in October 2013. According to a notification from their lawyers: From about September 25, 2013, until about October 9, 2013, when it was discovered, a janitorial service for Eureka Internal Medicine, was mixing paper recycling containing patient information with the regular trash at…
EMC notifying some employees after vendor error disclosed their names and SSNs to unauthorized parties
EMC is notifying employees after an unnamed vendor’s employee mistakenly sent out an Excel file with their personal information to parties not authorized to have their personal information. The error, which occurred on January 7, occurred because a quick glance at the file did not reveal the hidden fields containing their names, SSN, and old…