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CS Stars loses computer with personal details - over 500K in NY
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 16:21:22 -0400 (EDT)
http://www.newsday.com/ny-uscomp0722,0,4389008.story?coll=ny-top-headlines By John Riley Newsday Staff Writer July 21, 2006, 8:52 PM EDT More than a half-million New Yorkers who have made claims to a special workers' compensation fund have been notified that a Chicago-based claims-management software firm has lost track of a personal computer containing their private data, including Social Security numbers. The company, CS Stars, a subsidiary of insurance giant Marsh Inc., lost track of the computer while installing claims-management software for the Special Funds Conservation Committee, a private insurer-and-employer group that handles two particular types of workers' comp claims under New York State law. The company has called in the FBI to investigate the May 9 disappearance of the computer, and in a letter dated July 18 promised New Yorkers whose data were lost that it would provide free credit monitoring for the next year to nip any possible identity theft in the bud, and $25,000 in identity-theft insurance. "We're working to recover the data and protect all the people whose data is missing," said Al Modugno, a company spokesman. He said there was no indication, to date, that anyone had misused data from the missing computer. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/errata/dataloss/
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