On July 25, Allstate Financial sent out letters to some clients, informing them that their personal information was on a laptop that was lost by a Connecticut-based personal financial representative on May 23. According to the letter, a copy of which was uploaded to Vermont’s Attorney General’s web site, the missing laptop was not reported…
Lincoln Financial Group notifies 91,763 enrollees that programming error may have exposed their Social Security Numbers
For the second time in as many months, Lincoln National Life Insurance Company and Lincoln Life & Annuity Company of New York have notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of a security breach. By letter dated August 15, the company’s attorneys reported that due to a programming error that existed in the database’s search…
VT: Northwestern Counseling notifies 12 of stolen Social Security Numbers
Northwestern Counseling & Support Services in St. Albans, Vermont notified some clients last month that a stolen petty cash lockbox that held itemized receipts with the clients’ Social Security Numbers went missing. Okay, it happened, and the service duly notified those affected. But really, is it fair to put this on the clients: Although the petty…
meridianEMR Files Lawsuit Against UroChart and The Shappley Clinic
The following is a press release issued by meridianEMR. Although it is mostly about alleged theft of trade secrets/software, it also includes allegations of risk to patient privacy: meridianEMR®, the Livingston, New Jersey-based market leader in Electronic Health Records (EHR) for Urology, formally announces that on June 16, 2011 it filed a lawsuit against Intuitive Medical Software® (UroChart®),…
Some of WikiLeaks’ Bank of America data destroyed
Reuters reports: Some internal Bank of America files obtained by WikiLeaks have been destroyed, according to a former close collaborator of Julian Assange, the whistleblowing website’s founder. In an email to Reuters, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, who last year was fired by Assange as WikiLeaks’ co-spokesman, confirmed that he had destroyed “roundabout” 3,000 submissions WikiLeaks received related…
(follow-up) TX Comptroller’s breach: few sign up for credit monitoring
Barry Harrell has a follow-up on the Texas Comptroller’s breach that affected 3.5 million Texans. I was interested to read that 100,000 people signed up for the offered credit protection monitoring, which is less than 3% of those offered it – at a cost to the state of $600,480. The state had originally offered those…