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stolen laptop in Irving Tx in March
From: Henry Brown <hbrown () knology net>
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:22:33 -0500
from a copy of the "required" letter sent to the New Hampshire Attorney General... http://doj.nh.gov/consumer/pdf/r_e_moulton.pdf Date May 23 [...] R.E. Moulton is a leader in the medical stop-loss insurance industry and the stop-loss insurance products administered by it are available nation-wide. We are writing to inform you of an incident involving the possible disclosure of personal information. Specifically, on or around March 7,2008, thieves broke into our Irving, Texas regional office and stole a laptop computer containing personally identifiable information of numerous individuals, including names in combination with social security numbers. A police report was filed and the police are actively investigating this crime. Personal information was on the stolen laptop because R.E. Moulton receives requests to provide quotes for stop-loss insurance coverage. Approximately 19,000 individuals were affected, although there may be duplicates on our master list; this means that the list of affected individuals may be smaller. At this time, we are unable to determine the number of New Hampshire residents, if any, who will be notified of this incident because the information maintained on the laptop did not include addresses, but we will provide a list at a later date if we find that New Hampshire residents were affected. Letters will be sent to these individuals as soon as we receive their addresses from their employers or the third parties who arranged for the insurance quotes. Those employers and third parties were notified of this incident during the week of May 5, 2008 and are currently collecting the needed addresses. Depending on the length of time needed to collect addresses, we hope to start sending letters to the affected individuals in June. Please know thaI we have taken this incident very seriously. While we do not anticipate that any of the information will be used for unauthorized or malicious purposes, to help those whose information was involved, we have engaged [...] _______________________________________________ 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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