HOSPITAL BACK UP TAPES LOST – CONTAINED 800,000 PATIENTS PERSONAL INFORMATION
BOSTON — Back-up computer files containing personal, health and financial information of thousands affiliated with South Shore Hospital may have…
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DATA SECURITY SPECIALISTS DUPED BY FEMME FATALE
Robin Sage, according to her profiles on Facebook and other social-networking websites, was an attractive, flirtatious 25-year-old woman working as…
Read More →THEPIRATEBAY.ORG DATA LOSS EXPOSES MILLIONS OF USERS PERSONAL INFORMATION
Security weaknesses in the hugely popular file-sharing Web site thepiratebay.org have exposed the user names, e-mail and Internet addresses of…
Read More →DENTAQUEST LAPTOP THEFT EXPOSES PATIENTS’ SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS
A dental benefits manager for multiple government programs in the U.S. has declined to identify the number of Bradley County…
Read More →FIU SENDS DATA BREACH NOTIFICATION LETTERS TO THOUSANDS
Florida International University is in the process of sending notification letters to 19 407 students and 88 faculty members after…
Read More →BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD DATA LOSS – POTENTIAL RISK OF ID THEFT
More than 200,000 Anthem Blue Cross customers this week received letters informing them that their personal information might have been…
Read More →AT&T SAYS SORRY TO iPAD USERS AFTER PERSONAL DATA LOSS
AT&T sent an e-mail to iPad owners Sunday explaining a security breach that occurred on its site and laying much…
Read More →CITY PUBLISHED SOCIAL SECURITY, DRIVER’S LICENSE AND OTHER PERSONAL DATA
Admitting that it “goofed,” the city of Springfield put documents online that contained sensitive information such as Social Security numbers,…
Read More →AETNA PATIENT INFORMATION FOUND ON SIDE OF THE ROAD
Aetna needs to explain why a cabinet was left on the side of the road that contained personal identifying information…
Read More →Aetna Data Breach Class Action Dismissed
In Allison v. Aetna, U.S. District Judge Legrome D. Davis followed a disturbing trend from the bench that have held a claim of…
Read More →ID Theft Ring Busted
Northwestern Memorial Hospital failed to ensure file cabinets containing patients’ personal information was secure. As a result, ID thieves were able to…
Read More →Student Loan Guarantor, ECMC, Reports Data Loss
Student Loan guarantor, ECMC, is notifying 3.3 million borrowers about a data theft that occurred at its headquarters. The theft…
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