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(update) Hartford Financial misplaces back-up tapes with personal data on policy holders
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 12:03:15 +0000 (UTC)
(additional information including an updated number of total affected) From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org> Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 10:37:37 +0000 (UTC) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org> http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=security&articleId=9044801 By Jaikumar Vijayan October 30, 2007 Computerworld The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. has notified about 237,000 policy holders of a potential compromise of their personal data. The warning followed the loss of three backup tapes containing the names, addresses, Social Security numbers and driver's license numbers of customers of the company's personnel lines claims center. The tapes were discovered to be missing on Sept. 27. So far, there is no evidence that the tapes were stolen or that the information has been misused, a company spokeswoman said. Hartford Financial Services has no idea if the tapes were misplaced while in transit to another location or if they went missing inside the company. But the information contained on them could only be read with "the use of sophisticated and expensive equipment," she added. [..] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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