TrustedID Identity Theft Data Breach Alerts

Student Data Posted Online

TrustedID — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 03:51:11 +0000

Data Loss Source: Parents of Metro Nashville students will receive letters outlining a security breach that put their children’s Social Security numbers online for three months.
Date of Breach: March 5, 2009
Size of Loss : 18,541
Affected Individuals: Metro Nashville students
Geographic Focus: Nashville, TN
Data contained: Student names, gender, race or ethnicity, date of birth, Social Security number and parent names.
Additional Notes: Boston-based Public Consulting Group Inc., which holds a five-year, $2.6-million-a-year contract with the state to collect student data from various districts, corrected the error March 31 after a parent using Google to search her daughter’s name found it â€” along with personal data for the students and 6,000 parent names. The consulting group will pay for parents of affected children to check all family members’ credit reports and for a year of monitoring.
Additional Information: The Tennessean

Batteries.com Data Breach

TrustedID — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:46:24 +0000

Data Loss Source: Batteries.com, an online seller of batteries for consumer electronics reported a data breach to the New Hampshire Department of Justice. The company said it was caused by a hacked server.
Date of Breach: March 2009
Size of Loss : 865
Affected Individuals: New Hampshire residents
Geographic Focus: New Hampshire
Data contained: The hackers stole names, addresses and credit card information from the Batteries.com server, the company said.
Additional Notes: Customer notifications of the data breach went out in mid-May, the company said.
Additional Information: Computerworld.com

Shell Customers at Risk of Identity Theft

TrustedID — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:45:41 +0000

Data Loss Source: Oil giant Shell is warning customers in New Zealand and Australia about potential security risks after their information was exposed in a Web site attack
Date of Breach: March 19, 2009
Size of Loss : 5,900
Affected Individuals: Shell customers
Geographic Focus: New Zealand and Australia
Data contained: Personal information
Additional Notes: Personal information was exposed after someone broke into a Web site that housed credit applications for Shell fuel cards.
Additional Information: The Tech Herald

Retiree Data Sent Via Email

TrustedID — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 06:12:50 +0000

Data Loss Source: Personal information of state retirees was emailed to the Kentucky Retirement Systems (KRS) without being properly encrypted for security purposes by its pharmacy benefit provide.
Date of Breach: March 19, 2009
Size of Loss : 28,000
Affected Individuals: Retirees
Geographic Focus: Deerfield, IL
Data contained: The email contained dates of birth, Social Security numbers and health insurance claim numbers but not personal health information.
Additional Notes: The file contained information only on members who were both Medicare-eligible and used the retiree pharmacy benefit through Walgreens in 2007.

Symantec Customer Data Compromised

TrustedID — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:27:00 +0000

Data Loss Source: Security software provider Symantec warned a small number of customers that their credit card numbers may have been stolen from an Indian call center used by the company.
Date of Breach: March 31, 2009
Size of Loss : 200
Affected Individuals: Symantec customers
Geographic Focus: Cupertino, CA
Data contained: Credit card numbers
Additional Notes: Symantec is investigating allegations that a call center in India leaked credit card numbers of its customers to someone who then sold them to BBC News reporters posing as criminals.
Additional Information: CNET News