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My Family and I personally affected by a Benefits Broker data breach which happened when I was an employee at J-U-B Engineers

August 14, 2010 by Terry.

July 12, 2010 Marsh and Mercer
Washington, District Of Columbia		 BSF PORT At least 3,000
Marsh and Mercer’s Seabury and Smith, Inc. and Mercer Health and Benefits LLC operations were involved.  The list of known organizations with affected employees includes Idaho Power, Saint Luke’s health System and Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center.The location is listed as Seabury and Smith’s office.The insurance broker and benefits consulting firm reported the loss of a backup tape during transport.  The tape contained employee benefits information for companies that used Marsh and Mercer for consultation. Names, addresses, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, account information and driver’s license numbers were on the tape.  
Information Source:
Databreaches.net		 records from this breach used in our total: 3,000
The above data was found at http://www.privacyrights.org/data-breach/newI and my family [including wife and 4 children] are personally affected by this breach.  It happened back in April 2010.  Happens to be that I was laid-off in May 2010 from J-U-B Engineers, who also was affected by this breach.  J-U-B Engineers was not listed on the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse website posting shown above.  Yet, I was not informed until early August 2010.I am just glad that I and my family were already enrolled for the past 5+ years with the world’s leading risk consulting company, who has been watching our family member’s good name and there to do complete restoration, should something happen.  We also have a second 800-lb gorilla available to us should legal issues arise.

Problem is that the thieves already are educated on holding the data for at least a year to give time to elapse for the FREE 1-yr coverage these companies offer because it happened.  And they are only offering the monitoring and restoration [at least it is with the better solution out there], but no Legal coverage, because the thieves don’t use our information just for financial gain.  What about the Character/Criminal, Medical, Driver’s License, Employment, and Children’s IDentity Theft areas?  Those will need access to an attorney.

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Utah’s identity theft protection law comes too late for 11 month old child

June 7, 2010 by Terry.

http://www.examiner.com/x-32429-Salt-Lake-City-Immigration-Examiner~y2010m6d5-Utahs-identity-theft-protection-law-comes-too-late-for-11-month-old-child
In case the link disappears in the future, here is the story:

June 5, 11:49 PMSalt Lake City Immigration ExaminerRonald Mortensen
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In March 2010, the Utah state legislature passed SB251 which requires all employers with 15 or more employees to protect children from illegal alien driven, job-related identity theft by using a status verification system such as E-Verify.

SB251 enters into effect on July 1, 2010 which is too late to protect an 11 month old Utah child who is the victim of identity theft.

Monica Zamora Vazquez, 28, an illegal alien, was arrested for using the identity of the child to get a job. She faces charges of identity fraud, theft by deception and possession of a forged writing device. These are felonies.

The 11 month old victim of the crime had been denied taxpayer funded medical assistance to help pay for treatment for heart problems because Ms. Vazquez was earning income under the victim’s Social Security number.

Like millions of other illegal aliens, Vazquez had obtained a Social Security card in her name with another person’s number on it.

According to a senior official of the Social Security Administration, approximately seventy-five percent of all illegal aliens have a fraudulently obtained Social Security number.

The Social Security numbers of children are especially valuable since illegal aliens can use the number for many years before the child or his parents become aware of the problem.

It is estimated that 50,000 Utah children have their identities being used, primarily by illegal aliens to get jobs. In Arizona, 1.1 million children are believed to be impacted by this crime.

In addition to being denied critically needed taxpayer funded medical benefits as occurred in this case, victims of illegal alien identity theft have their credit ruined, may be saddled with arrest records, be pursued by the IRS for unpaid taxes on income earned under their Social Security numbers and may even have their medical records corrupted with life threatening consequences.

SB251 was passed specifically to prevent adults from using the Social Security numbers of children to get jobs.

If all employers used E-Verify, no adult could use a child’s Social Security number with her own name as Ms. Vazquez did because E-Verify matches the name, Social Security number and date of birth.

Even if the name and Social Security matched, a child’s date of birth being used by an adult would raise flags.

Utah employers and Hispanic organizations strongly opposed efforts to protect children from this type of identity theft.

Business groups have been accused of sacrificing Utah children to identity theft in order to increase their profits while Hispanic organizations are accused of willingly sacrificing American children for the benefit of illegal aliens.

Legislation is now being considered to close the loophole in the law that allows employers with less than 15 employees to continue to hire illegal aliens using the stolen identities of children.
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