LeRoy Brown, a former personal banker from Washington, D.C., pled guilty today to conspiracy to commit bank fraud for his role in an identity theft scheme involving $121,400 in forged checks, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced. Brown, 32, pled guilty in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The Honorable John…
VSECU notifies consumers of missing backup tapes
TD Bank isn’t the only financial sector entity dealing with missing backup tapes these days. Vermont-based VSECU sent out notification letters yesterday after two unencrypted backup tapes created on August 27th were discovered missing on September 10. The tapes contained names, addresses, Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, financial account information, and transaction records. The credit union…
L.A. Care Health Plan notifies members after mailing gaffe
L.A. Care Health Plan notified members of a breach. In an undated letter, they write: L.A. Care is serious about member privacy. We are sending you this letter to make sure that you are aware of an accidental mailing error involving member identification (ID) cards. On September 18, 2012, L.A. Care learned that some member…
Dentist informs patients whose medical and insurance information was on stolen computer
Philip P. Corneliuson, DDS, of Fresno, California sent his patients the following notice on October 8: SUBJECT: IMPORTANT – Notification of Data Security Breach Dear Patient, On the afternoon of Saturday , September 15th 2012, we discovered our office suite broken into and our computer stolen. The computer stored both medical records and insurance information,…
Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report 2012 – what did they find in the health care sector?
The Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report 2012 (for 2011 data) is out, and although their methodology and sample does not include all the breaches that get reported to HHS or on DataLossDB.org, I thought their findings on the health care sector interesting. From their press release, here’s their overview of major findings: Health Care Most…
174 million records compromised in 855 data breach incidents last year, says report
Out-Law.com has a recap of some of the main findings in the 2012 Verizon DBIR: Verizon’s Data Breach Investigations Report (92-page / 3.47MB PDF) (DBIR) covering the year 2011 found that 174 million records were compromised in a total of 855 data breaches in what it called an “an all time low” for protection against data breaches….