New Yorkers' Personal Information Exposed by Brokerage Firm
East News April 30, 2007
A company that lost track of a computer containing the personal information of 540,000 New Yorkers but didn't tell the state about it for five weeks has agreed to promptly notify people if ...
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Subject: CS Stars
Posted On: April 30, 2007, 6:45 am CDT
Posted By: Judy
Comment:
I was one of the people who received a letter from CS Stars. The contact letter was so "questionable" that I was reluctant to respond, and every person I spoke to about it said not to answer. Their contact letter looked like the kind of "phishing" letters that we are always told not to answer, as they can be from people looking to collect information. There was no phone # to call CS Stars, there was no real information to indicate why I might be considered to be at risk, and no contact info was given to direct me to the worker's comp board, where I could have gotten real info. (I had a comp case that was marked that I may have need for future treatment, instead of that I had full recovery, which apparently put me in a special fund. But nothing in the letter told me that. I found this out from the news.) That company needs to be replaced by someone else. Not only did they allow a security breach, but they didn't react properly when they found out, and the letters they send were useless. Why would I want "identify theft protection" from a company that compromised my information and then could not even send me information that was clear and verifiable?
Subject: CS Stars