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Aetna Notifies 65,000 of Security Breach

Posted by Kara Reeder May 28, 2009 12:44:16 PM

The Social Security numbers of 65,000 current and former employees of Aetna have been compromised in a job application Web site data breach, reports ITWorld. The site, which is maintained by an external vendor, also had names, phone numbers, e-mail and mailing addresses for up to 450,000 applicants, but no SSNs for those people were stored on the site.

 

The breach was discovered after people began receiving spam messages that appeared to come from the company. The spam campaign clearly showed that the intruders had successfully accessed the e-mail addresses, but it's unclear if SSNs were also obtained.

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