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WellPoint Security Breach Exposes 470,000 Credit Card Numbers & Medical Records
By Chris Morran on June 29, 2010 4:42 PM   34 Comments
Health insurance giant WellPoint has already annoyed its customers by trying to jack up their rates and dropping breast cancer patients' coverage after they'd been diagnosed with the disease. But now they really have some explaining to do, after a security breach exposed medical records, credit card numbers and other information of 470,000 customers. More »

Credit Union Celebrates Labor Day By Limiting ATM Transactions To $40
By Laura Northrup on September 5, 2009 8:30 PM   43 Comments

—>How are you spending the long weekend? If you're one of 2,000 Arizona Federal Credit Union customers affected in a Visa security breach, we hope you weren't planning a trip out of state.  More »

Red Card! MLSGear.com Shoppers Exposed To Identity Theft
By Chris Walters on February 12, 2008 11:28 PM   15 Comments

—> Computerworld is reporting that "a series of SQL injection attacks" on a third-party e-commerce company's servers has compromised the personal data of customers who shopped at Major League Soccer's MLSgear.com website. One affected customer told us he received a letter from MLSgear.com letting him know what had happened and offering him free credit monitoring services for a year, which is apparently the standing corporate response to personal data theft.   More »

TD Ameritrade Hacked, Customer Data Compromised
By Meg Marco on September 14, 2007 8:08 PM   2 Comments

—>TD Ameritrade has announced that they've been hacked and contact information including names, addresses, e-mail addresses and account activity information such as how many trades were conducted in the last month. Social Security Numbers, user names and passwords were not compromised, according to TD Ameritrade's spokesperson.  More »

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