Annie McCallum reports: Personal data for 13,000 state employees was inadvertently sent to 11 state human resource and payroll employees. The personal information included employee names and Social Security numbers, according to a statement from Anne Waring, Virginia Department of Human Resource Management communications manager. The department was notified by Conexis, Anthem’s subcontractor for Flexible…
AnonGhost 165k Israel Leak insight, Leak looks FAKE
It appears today that Techworm.in has fallen for another one of AnonGhosts False leaks. The most recent leak, published here, is claimed to be from webmasters accounts from israel yet the data is conflicting . here is what i have found so far without being able to check old archives for exact matches. So here…
ICS Collection Service, Inc. press release on data breach affecting University of Chicago Physicians Group patients
ICS Collection Service, Inc. (“ICS”) is a debt collection agency specializing in recovering aged debt from individuals (“debtors”) on behalf of healthcare and commercial entities (“clients” or “creditors”), including University of Chicago Physicians Group (“UCPG”). ICS had previously contracted with UCPG for collection and address verification services. While the contract had been terminated before the potential breach…
Failure to encrypt results in EPIC breach
Sometime in the evening of July 16 or the early morning hours of July 17, burglars managed to steal five laptop computers from the offices of Edgewood Partners Insurance Center (EPIC) in San Francisco. The theft was discovered on the 17th and reported to the police, but as of September 6, the laptops – one…
Burglar snatches laptop with patient medical records from San Jose internist's office
Hankyu Chung, M.D., an internist in San Jose, California, reports that on June 16, there was a burglary at his offices. The burglar was able to gain access to the offices by entering the building complex through an unlocked door and using the crawl space above the office to gain access to it. The burglary…
GA: Thousands of social security numbers sent in email
And this may be the winning entry for “Email Gaffe of the Week:” An employee error compromised thousands of people’s personal information, including social security numbers, the Georgia Department of Labor said. A spreadsheet containing the names, Social Security numbers, telephone numbers and email addresses of 4,457 people who filed for unemployment in Georgia was…