Lorenzo's Security Blog

CHATTANOOGA (AP) – BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee now says almost twice as many customers’ personal information than first thought could be at risk after the theft of computer hard drives. Image via Wikipedia   Company spokeswoman Mary Thompson is quoted by the Chattanooga Times Free Press saying BlueCross is notifying an additional 447,549 people that [...]

An Upper Darby man has been charged in a case of identity theft that officials say involved patients’ personal information taken from computers at the University of Pennsylvania Health System. Image via Wikipedia Upper Darby police announced yesterday that Shacoy McNish, 27, has been charged with theft, receiving stolen property, identity theft, and related crimes. [...]

Image via Wikipedia A Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia laptop computer containing Social Security numbers and other personal information for 943 people was stolen from a car outside an employee’s home on Oct. 20. The billing information on the computer was password-protected, but an analysis found it was “possible to decode the security controls on the [...]

Suffolk Community College has agreed to pay a company for the next year to monitor the credit of 300 students whose last names and Social Security numbers were mistakenly listed in an attachment to an e-mail sent to those students last Image via Wikipedia month.  [Donald: Okay, so where does Technology have anything to do [...]

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Thousands of patients at a Kern County health clinic have been warned their personal information could have been stolen. A break-in happened at the Sagebrush Medical Plaza in July, and Kern Medical Center officials have notified 31,000 patients to take precautions against possible identity theft. But, some patients complain the warning came [...]