WASHINGTON – Sen. Richard Blumenthal on Wednesday asked the Federal  Trade Commission to investigate Google over revelations that the company not only exposed private data of Google+ users to outside developers, but also failed to disclose the data leak for months.
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Jepsen turns up the heat on Facebook
Upon revelations that Cambridge Analytica had harvested extensive psychographic information from about 50 million Facebook users, Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen demanded that Facebook Chairman Mark Zuckerberg answer the questions many Americans were asking: “How and why was their personal data exploited?” He spoke with the Connecticut Mirror about why he launched a multi-state inquiry.
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AG: Hartford Hospital, contractor to pay $90,000 in 2012 data theft
Hartford Hospital and one of its contractors have agreed to pay the state $90,000 and undertake training and security measures to resolve an investigation into the theft of a laptop containing unencrypted patient information in June 2012, according to Attorney General George Jepsen’s office.
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Jepsen no longer recused from role in Anthem-Cigna merger
Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen will no longer recuse himself from the review of a proposed $54 billion merger between Anthem and Cigna, his office revealed on Tuesday.
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Auditors question Access Health’s information security
In a report released Tuesday, state auditors cited concerns raised by a security expert who reviewed the Access Health insurance exchange following a 2014 security breach. They suggested that the quasi-public agency develop a system for responding to security deficiencies.
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IRS, Hartford police conducting criminal investigation on Access Health data breach
The Internal Revenue Service and Hartford police are conducting a criminal investigation of the data breach involving information on clients of Connecticut’s health insurance exchange. But an exchange official said Thursday that the cause was most likely a mistake by a call center worker.
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Backpack with Access Health data taken to House GOP office
The backpack containing personal information of clients of Connecticut’s health insurance exchange was left outside a Hartford deli where a worker from the exchange’s call center sat while waiting for a ride Thursday afternoon. The man who found it called the office of his state representative and later brought the backpack to the House GOP office.
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Obamacare client data was in bag owned by vendor worker
The backpack found on a Hartford street with personal information about customers of Connecticut’s health insurance exchange belonged to an employee of the agency’s call center vendor, according to the exchange.