[Dataloss] American Family Insurance Warns Customers Of Identity Theft

Chris Walsh cwalsh at cwalsh.org
Wed Sep 13 17:45:00 EDT 2006


Hmm.

Wisconsin's notification law (http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2005/data/ 
acts/05Act138.pdf) says that notice should take place within 45  
days.  This theft was in July.

These guys may have cut it rather close.



On Sep 13, 2006, at 4:02 PM, lyger wrote:

>
> Courtesy PogoWasRight.org:
>
> http://wfrv.com/topstories/local_story_256094729.html
>
> American Family Insurance is warning customers to be wary of identity
> theft after computer equipment was stolen in a burglary in Madison.
>
> American Family is the state's biggest insurer of homes and  
> vehicles. It
> mailed letters to more than two-thousand customers alerting them to  
> the
> theft at the office of an insurance agent.
>
> [...]
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