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Health insurance company breach may affect 70,000 Georgians

June 30, 2010 – 6:35 am

Georgia’s largest health insurer has reported a Web site security breach that could affect 70,000 residents whose medical information, Social Security numbers and credit card data may have been accessed.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia’s breach is part of the larger breach of the insurer’s parent company, WellPoint, which has sent warning letters to 470,000 [...]

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February 14, 2010 – 1:53 pm

Data breach at AvMed makes three health insurer data breaches in three months
If the question is when will health care insurers begin protecting their customers’ identities, health information and financial information, in light of the most recent insurer data breach, the answer has to be “when pigs fly.”
AvMed began sending out notifications this week of [...]

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February 5, 2010 – 11:47 am

Non-profit agency increases identity theft risks by mailing tax forms to wrong property owners
It happens every tax season. W2s or 1099s are mailed out with Social Security numbers or tax ID numbers visible through the envelopes window. Or, they are printed on mailing labels and slapped on the outside of the envelopes along with names [...]

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January 13, 2010 – 3:06 pm

2009 Identity Theft Resource Center Breach Report
The Identity Theft Resource Center’s numbers on last years’ data breaches are out, but despite some figures that are seemingly good news, the overall picture is muddled if not outright bleak.
Nearly 500 data breaches were reported last year – a 25% decrease from 2008. That’s the first decrease in [...]

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Data breach Hall of Shame, 2009

December 17, 2009 – 2:59 pm

This is the time of year when all the Top 10, Best of, and Worst of lists come out. And just for the folks who worry about data breaches, information security, identity theft and institutional stupidity, ComputerWorld has rolled out their 2009 Data Breach Hall of Shame.
In no particular order–but each special in its own [...]

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Notre Dame data breach; ID theft risk for 24,000 employees

December 11, 2009 – 1:04 pm

A data breach is never a good thing, but when the data breach isn’t discovered for three years, and then those responsible wait two months before notifying those affected and at risk of ID theft … Well, 24,000 University of Notre Dame employees are confronting that situation.
Files containing the employees’ names, Social Security numbers, birth [...]

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ID theft risk for BlueCross BlueShield members after data breach

December 4, 2009 – 3:38 pm

Members will be receiving mail from BlueCross BlueShield any day now, but it won’t be Christmas cards. Instead, they’ll be getting letters warning them that they are at a heightened risk from ID theft because their personal, financial and even medical information may be among the millions of records missing after 57 computer hard drives [...]

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Virginia DOE data breach affects more than 100,000

October 19, 2009 – 9:59 am

The Virginia state government has suffered another major data breach, their second this year. The most recent occurred September 21 when an unencrypted flash drive containing the names, Social Security numbers and employment and demographic information of 103,000 people was lost.
Those affected either took an adult education class between April 2007 and January 2009, or [...]

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BlueCross BlueShield data breach affects 850,000 doctors

October 8, 2009 – 12:29 pm

As many as 850,000 physicians may be affected by theft of a BlueCross BlueShield employee’s laptop. Physicians’ names addresses, federal tax ID numbers and national provider numbers were contained in an unencrypted file on the laptop.
The data breach presents the possibility of massive medical insurance fraud, but the 187,000 doctors who used their Social Security [...]

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