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Web site breach of The Dental Network exposes patients? information
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:19:32 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via Personal Health Information Privacy. [snip] A security breach of The Dental Network web site left access to member personal data, including names, Social Security numbers, address(es) and dates of birth unprotected for approximately two weeks. According to a letter dated March 10th to the New Hampshire Department of Justice, TDN discovered the breach on February 20th. The Dental Network is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. TDN retained Identity Safeguards, who notified those affected and is providing one year of free credit monitoring and free credit restoration services should they be needed. The company also set up a web site at http://ids.thedentalnet.org/ According to the FAQ on the site, TDN secured membersÂ’ data within minutes of detecting the problem. [snip] More: http://www.phiprivacy.net/?p=114 - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFH4LBxq1pz9mNUZTMRAlOZAJ9I3pv1cOMDTbjdrRNBVNbwGl6TCQCgo3sW 0Q3mHZEGhb7qq1COZIDsZE8= =dd2N -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ 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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