Team 5 Investigates has learned that the personal information of as many as 1,300 current and former students at the Wentworth Institute of Technology was inadvertently put online. School officials notified all affected students of the data breach, which was reported to WIT on Dec. 22. The letter said that an “electronic file was accessible…
Error sends University of Missouri health insurance mail to wrong addresses
Adam Dodge of ESI sends along this news story by Ladd Egan: Hundreds of participants of University of Missouri’s health insurance program are being told to be on the look-out for insurance fraud after several hundred insurance communications were mailed to the wrong person. Health benefit statements, health services letters and new ID cards were…
Error sends University of Missouri health insurance mail to wrong addresses
Adam Dodge of ESI sends along this news story by Ladd Egan: Hundreds of participants of University of Missouri’s health insurance program are being told to be on the look-out for insurance fraud after several hundred insurance communications were mailed to the wrong person. Health benefit statements, health services letters and new ID cards were among…
NZ: Telecom’s customer data open to ex staff
Susie Nordqvist and Hamish Fletcher report: Former employees have questioned Telecom’s security policies and one can still look up customer details despite having left his job two months ago. Andrew Rozen, who worked in a customer service role from March to November last year, checked if he could access Telecom’s Wireline database after accusations of…
AU: Dads face ban filming birth in new privacy clamp down by hospitals
Marianne Betts reports: Video cameras are being banned in birthing suites by Victorian hospitals worried about legal repercussions, staff privacy and unnecessary distractions. The revelation comes a month after the Herald Sun reported almost $20 million was paid in secret from court settlements in 2009 to families whose babies suffered bungled births in Victoria’s public…
Insurance applications breach in FL: is anyone cleaning up that mess?
As part of following up on a breach involving the insecure disposal of health insurance applications (reported previously on this blog), I wanted to learn more about how insurance carriers respond to this type of breach. So I emailed questions to Aetna and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida asking whether their contracts with the…