[ISN] Penn Mutual Says Employee Might Have Disclosed Customer Data

http://www.darkreading.com/insider-threat/167801100/security/privacy/229300663/penn-mutual-says-employee-might-have-disclosed-customer-data.html

By Tim Wilson
Darkreading 
Mar 09, 2011

An employee of the Penn Mutual Insurance company gained unauthorized 
access to customer information and might have disclosed it to others, 
according to a breach disclosure notice filed with the state of New 
Hampshire last month.

"When Penn Mutual learned that the former employee had, during the 
course of her employment, unlawfully accessed personal information of 
Penn Mutual customers, it immediately fired the employee," the breach 
disclosure states.

"Although we have not been able to determine definitively what customer 
accounts and what personal information were unlawfully accessed by the 
former employee, it appears that the former employee accessed and may 
have improperly disclosed the names, addresses, dates of birth, Social 
Security numbers, and bank account information associated with a number 
of our customer accounts," the disclosure says.

The notification letter filed with the state of New Hampshire does not 
say how many customers might have been affected by the data breach. Five 
of the customers are residents of New Hampshire.

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