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Blue Shield Data Breach: 18,000 Doctors' Social Security Numbers Exposed

The Social Security numbers of roughly 18,000 California physicians and health-care providers were inadvertently made public after a slip-up at health insurance provider Blue Shield of California, the organization said Monday. . The numbers were included in monthly filings on medical providers that Blue Shield is required to make to the state's Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC). The provider rosters for February, March and April 2013 included the data and were available under the state's public records law. The link for this article located at TechWorld is no longer available. . A security lapse at HealthGuard exposes 25,000 patients' medical records, compromising personal health information.. Data Breach, Healthcare Privacy, Social Security Numbers. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

Calendar%202 Jul 08, 2014 User Avatar LinuxSecurity.com Team Hacks/Cracks
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Red Cross Employee Indicted: 1 Million Social Security Numbers Breach

A former employee with the American Red Cross’ St. Louis chapter – who had access to the Social Security numbers of 1 million people – has been indicted by a federal grand jury. . Medcalf was a telephone worker at the Red Cross branch, where, with the job of calling former donors to urge them to give blood again, she had access to past donors’ Social Security numbers, according to the report. The link for this article located at https://www.scworld.com/ is no longer available. . An ex-staff member exploited their privileges to access the Social Security numbers of 1 million contributors, resulting in charges of identity fraud.. Data Breach, Identity Theft, Red Cross Access, Social Security. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

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New Federal Legislation to Address Identity Theft Through SSN Restrictions

Democratic and Republican politicians on Thursday both promised to enact new federal laws by the end of the year that would restrict some commercial uses of Social Security numbers, which are often implicated in identity fraud cases. "Whether Social Security numbers should be sold by Internet data brokers to anyone willing to pay, indistinguishable from sports scores or stock quotes... to me, that's a no-brainer," Texas Republican Joe Barton, chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee, said at a hearing. Such a practice should not be allowed, he said, "period, end of debate." . In both the House and the Senate, there are at least three pieces of pending legislation that propose different approaches to restricting the use and sale of SSNs. Politicians have expressed astonishment at what they see as a rising identity fraud problem, frequently pointing to a 2003 Federal Trade Commission survey that estimated nearly 10 million consumers are hit by such intrusions each year. One bill, sponsored by Massachusetts Democrat Edward Markey, would require the FTC to make new rules limiting the sale and purchase of those identifiers, with exceptions for law enforcement, public health, certain emergency situations and selected research projects. . Legislators are drafting new regulations aimed at curbing the exploitation of Social Security numbers amid rising concerns about identity fraud.. Federal Legislation, Identity Theft Solutions, Social Security Restrictions, Data Privacy Measures. . Brittany Day

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