[Dataloss] CS Stars loses computer with personal details - over 500K in NY

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http://www.newsday.com/ny-uscomp0722,0,4389008.story?coll=ny-top-headlines

By John Riley
Newsday Staff Writer
July 21, 2006, 8:52 PM EDT

More than a half-million New Yorkers who have made claims to a special 
workers' compensation fund have been notified that a Chicago-based 
claims-management software firm has lost track of a personal computer 
containing their private data, including Social Security numbers.

The company, CS Stars, a subsidiary of insurance giant Marsh Inc., lost 
track of the computer while installing claims-management software for the 
Special Funds Conservation Committee, a private insurer-and-employer group 
that handles two particular types of workers' comp claims under New York 
State law.

The company has called in the FBI to investigate the May 9 disappearance 
of the computer, and in a letter dated July 18 promised New Yorkers whose 
data were lost that it would provide free credit monitoring for the next 
year to nip any possible identity theft in the bud, and $25,000 in 
identity-theft insurance.

"We're working to recover the data and protect all the people whose data 
is missing," said Al Modugno, a company spokesman. He said there was no 
indication, to date, that anyone had misused data from the missing 
computer.

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