UPCOMING EVENTS:
AFCOM DCW Fall 2008
October 6 - 7
Orlando, FL
www.afcom.com
NEWS:
5.26.08
Several months ago the Bank of New York Mellon Corp., one of the largest asset management firms, lost the Social Security numbers and other information of about 4.5 million customers.The loss occurred when the bank’s archiving vendor lost the tapes that contained information from its Shareowner Services unit. In an announcement, Richard Blumenthal, the Connecticut Attorney General called the noted that breach astonishing. "We have received preliminary information and have demanded all of the details relevant to this shocking security breach, particularly as to the delay in notifying Connecticut authorities, as well as People's and its customers. The banks have cooperated so far in providing the information that the governor is directing the Department of Consumer Protection to seek, but we welcome this interest and concern.
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN2143343820080521
04.16.2008
A recent glitch in the state Corrections Department's Web site allowed bloggers to access the Social Security numbers of violent offenders in Oklahoma. Bloggers from a computer programming Web site found the information and alerted the department, said agency spokesman Jerry Massie. The list contained the names, addresses and Social Security numbers of some 6,000 people.
http://newsok.com/article/3230675/1208345421/
04.16.2008
A laptop stolen from a University of Virginia employee contained sensitive information about more than 7,000 students, staff and faculty members. Stolen from an unidentified employee from an undisclosed location in
Albemarle County, the laptop contained a confidential file filled with names and Social Security numbers.
http://www.dailyprogress.com/cdp/news/local/article/uva_laptop_stolen_had_sensitive_data/17976/
04.17.2008
The confidential information of tens of thousands of University of Miami patients was stolen last month when
thieves took a case out of a vehicle used by a private off-site storage company, UM said Thursday morning
"Anyone who has been a patient of a University of Miami physician or visited a UM facility since Jan. 1, 1999, is
likely included on the tapes," the university said in a news release. "The data included names, addresses,
Social Security numbers or health information. The university will be notifying by mail the 47,000 patients
whose data may have included credit card or other financial information regarding bill payment."
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_dade/story/499492.html
04.13.2008
A man who worked in the admissions department at a prestigious Manhattan hospital has been charged with
stealing and selling information on nearly 50,000 patients. Dwight McPherson, 38, a former worker at New York-
Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, was arrested Friday night, shortly after the hospital
announced the security breach. McPherson was arraigned yesterday at a federal court in Manhattan.
Prosecutors said McPherson exploited his access to the hospital's computer system to acquire lists of patient
names, phone numbers and Social Security numbers over a two-year period."
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20080413/news_1n13idtheft.html
http://www.silive.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/base/news-33/1207944571223200.xml&storylist=simetro
04.10.2008
Social Security numbers for more than 1,200 participants in a National Institutes of Health study were stored on
a stolen laptop containing their medical records, putting those patients at risk of identity theft, agency officials
said yesterday. Originally, it was thought that the laptop did not contain any SSNs or financial information. But
an ongoing review of the computer's last-known contents has found a file had been loaded onto the laptop by a
research associate. That file included Social Security numbers for at least 1,281 of the 3,078 patients enrolled
in the multi-year study, which is sponsored by the NIH's National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. The laptop
was stolen from a researcher's car on 2/23/2008"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/09/AR2008040903680.html
04.07.2008
A password protected laptop was stolen 2/7 from the home of a contractor which included names, credit card
numbers and in some cases expiration dates, addresses and hotel loyalty program numbers of about 800
former and current Pfizer employees and contractors
http://www.theday.com/re.aspx?re=6b8c60cf-8fa2-43f1-9238-6dba8792cfa3
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