[Dataloss] American Family Insurance Warns Customers OfIdentityTheft

[Saundra Kae Rubel]

See part (5) at page 2 of that specific law:
(5) REQUEST BY LAW ENFORCEMENT NOT TO NOTIFY. A
law enforcement agency may, in order to protect an
investigation or homeland security, ask an entity not to
provide a notice that is otherwise required under sub. (2)
for any period of time and the notification process
required under sub. (2) shall begin at the end of that time
period. Notwithstanding subs. (2) and (3), if an entity
receives such a request, the entity may not provide notice
of or publicize an unauthorized acquisition of personal
information, except as authorized by the law enforcement
agency that made the request.


-----Original Message-----
From: dataloss-bounces at attrition.org [mailto:dataloss-bounces at attrition.org]
On Behalf Of Kenton Hoover
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 3:09 PM
To: dataloss at attrition.org
Subject: Re: [Dataloss] American Family Insurance Warns Customers
OfIdentityTheft

Does it have the "investigation" cut-out that California's does? In
California, you can not report if reporting would negatively impact an
ongoing criminal investigation. I've seen that used once to bury a loss
for quite a while (in fact, it may still be buried).


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Kenton A. Hoover               
Solutions Engineering              
Symantec Corporation            
          
+1.415.850.5924         
kenton_hoover at symantec.com
 
-----Original Message-----
From: dataloss-bounces at attrition.org
[mailto:dataloss-bounces at attrition.org] On Behalf Of Chris Walsh
Sent: Wednesday, 13 September, 2006 14:45
To: lyger
Cc: dataloss at attrition.org
Subject: Re: [Dataloss] American Family Insurance Warns Customers
OfIdentity Theft

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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