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Aflac clients' data stolen
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 13:25:58 -0400 (EDT)
Courtesy PogoWasRight.org http://www.charleston.net/assets/webPages/departmental/news/Stories.aspx?section=business&tableId=103737&pubDate=8/22/2006 Insurance giant Aflac said Monday that a laptop computer containing personal information on hundreds of customers was stolen from an agent's car in the Greenville area. The computer contained names, addresses, Social Security numbers and birth dates of 612 policy holders, said spokeswoman Laura Kane. After the theft was reported, the Columbus, Ga.-based company notified all affected customers in a letter dated Aug. 11. Kane said the insurer, also known as American Family Life Assurance Co., believes the computer was taken by an opportunistic thief, not someone who was after the data on it. The information is protected by a password, she said. Also, the computer is equipped with tracking software that will alert officials when the computer is connected to the Internet. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 142 million compromised records in 307 incidents over 6 years.
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