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Confidential Connecticut Department of Labor mailing is missing

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2008-06-10 12:00:32 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...letters sent to them regarding their unemployment insurance claim cannot be located Reference URL Connecticut Department of Labor Associated Press via The Hartford Courant Newsday Report Credit Connecticut Department of Labor Response From the online sources cited above WETHERSFIELD, The Connecticut Department of Labor is notifying...
 
Tags: information, personal information, information security personnel, security, additional security features, entire social security, connecticut department, connecticut, breach description
 
 
 
 
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Employee fraud hits Baptist Health in Arkansas

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2008-07-11 00:00:20 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...letters warning about 1,800 patients that the hospital systems records may have been breached Evan] Uh, "may have been breached The notification came after the arrest of a Baptist Health employee at a Wal-Mart store on 25 counts of financial identity fraud Evan] Wouldn't life be grand if we could trust our employees? Maybe, I suppose The...
 
Tags: confidential personal information, personal information, baptist health system, health system, fraud, victims personal information, employee fraud, baptist health, employee
 
 
 
 
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Health care practices and UCSF patient records exposed

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2008-05-07 16:10:17 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...letters to the 6,313 affected patients until early April, nearly six months later Sensitive information can be used by employers, health insurers and other entities to discriminate thieves can use purloined information to obtain medical treatment and prescription drugs and to file false medical claims Evan] Purloined is a funny word This...
 
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Contest: Cory Doctorow's Cipher Wheel Rings

2008-09-05 12:01:09 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...letters to the left if there is a dot over it, and two letters to the right if there is a dot under it. Take that new letter (in the middle wheel), and look at the letter below it (in the lower wheel). Count three letters to the left if there is a dot over it, and three letters to the right if there is a dot under it. That's your encrypted...
 
Tags: wheel, letter, two-letter key, middle wheel, dot, cory doctorow, cory, rings, top wheel
 
 
 
 
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Pocono Mountain School District "irregularities"

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2008-06-02 12:36:33 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...letters on Friday afternoon telling parents about the apparent breach, which the district found out about the previous evening, according to Wendy Frable, director of public information Reference URL Pocono Mountain School District "Letter to Parents Pocono Record The Morning Call Report Credit Pocono Mountain School District Response From...
 
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Canadian farmer personal information on stolen CCGA laptop

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2008-06-08 19:32:52 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...letters until last week informing them The federal department has sent letters out to all farmers affected by the theft The letter said the laptop was stolen from an undisclosed, remote location in Manitoba We treat this very seriously," White said. "This is an unfortunate incident, a very low-risk one Evan] Mr. White is probably not well...
 
Tags: information, laptop, financial information, confidential information, laptop affects, computer, strict security measures, ccga, laptop computer
 
 
 
 
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University of Florida student information online for years

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2008-06-12 10:41:30 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...letters of notification to more than 11,300 current and former students regarding a privacy breach that resulted in names, addresses and Social Security numbers being posted online that may have been accessible to the public Reference URL University of Florida Miami Herald Inside UF United Press International Report Credit University of...
 
Tags: information, information online, personal information, information security, confidential information, information security personnel, student information, security measures, install security measures
 
 
 
 
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Laptop stolen from R.E. Moulton may affect 19,000

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2008-06-15 22:15:45 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Letters will be sent to these individuals as soon as we receive their addresses from their employers or the third parties who arranged for the insurance quotes Evan] It seems to me that the "employers or the third parties" have a significant role in this breach also. I wonder if information security personnel at the "employers or the third...
 
Tags: sensitive personal information, personal information, information, information security practices, confidential information, information security, moulton, laptop, information security personnel
 
 
 
 
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory visitor information exposed

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2007-12-11 13:45:21 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...letters to every visitor potentially affected but may have difficulties due to out-of-date addresses, management said in its advisory Comfyllama] If the reports about this attack originating (or proxying through) China are true, then it is unlikely that a full "reconstructing" will ever be complete every security system at ORNL was in place...
 
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42,000 West Penn Allegheny Health System Patients

2007-12-28 17:06:00 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
 
...Letters were sent to the 42,000 affected individuals on December 15th Reference URL WPXI News Story WTAE-TV News Story Report Credit Karen Welles, WPXI Target 11 Investigative Reporter Response From the online sources cited above The names, social security numbers, phone numbers, addresses and patient care information of 42,000 patients...
 
Tags: sensitive personal information, personal information, information, nurse, home care nurse, patients, home, information warrants, computer