Article:Westlaw Password Breach Compromises Personal Data

Westlaw Password Breach Compromises Personal Data
http://www.law360.com/articles/596928/westlaw-subscribers-personal-data-compromised-in-breach

Law360, New York (November 17, 2014, 8:26 PM ET) — Thomson Reuters Corp. is alerting several thousand consumers that their Social Security numbers and other personal information may have been compromised by individuals who used Westlaw subscribers’ passwords to run unauthorized searches of the service’s public records database, the company confirmed Monday.

The company began the notification process on Nov. 3, when it sent a letter to the New Hampshire attorney general about the information security incident, along with a sample notification letter that it planned to mail the following day to consumers who had potentially…

 

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