Reason 1: the VA was incredibly negligent; AIG wasn\’t (as far as I can tell).
Reason 2: The VA needs to keep its customers happy, AIG doesn\’t.
Why do you blame AIG to the tune of a billion bucks?
Is it that they had your data? I personally blame my insurance company.
Is it that they were burglarized? Lots of companies are burglarized every day.
Is it that their security or procedures were bad? As far as I can tell, they were average for the industry. If you have any evidence, they were sub-par, I\’d love to hear it. The whole industry needs to get better, but we shouldn\’t single out AIG for that.
Of course, identity theft prevention is big business, why shouldn\’t AIG/MedicalExcess reap the benefits along with all the other companies that prey on the misfortune and paranoia of the multitutde of nameless, faceless everyday citizens (a.k.a. \”us\”). Occurrances like these are a boon to credit reporting agencies. For example, if just 5% of those affected by this one instance of mass ID theft subsequently subscribed to Experian\’s Credit Manager service to avail themselves of
\”• Unlimited credit reports and scores
• Daily credit monitoring with email alerts
• $10 off 3 Bureau Credit Report upgrades\”
then AIGs boo boo = half a million dollar bump in Experian\’s annual sales.
One person writes about the Bush Administration\’s insatiable appetite for information on us all, well hey, I\’d be all for it if the government could provide a useful service to us for our tax dollars, as Experian can, for a fee.
For example, if just .5% of those affected by this one instance of mass ID theft . . . if 5% signed up, it would be nearly a 6 million dollar bump in sales!
AIG describes itself as \”the leading international insurance organization with operations in more than 130 countries and
jurisdictions.\” An AIG member company announced earlier this year that it
now offers identity-theft insurance coverage.
So HOW BOUT IT AIG ?? you claim \”valuable\” $10K servers were stolen. a pittance. were they and the data adequately secured ? NO. gross negligence. so how bout free identity-theft insurance, all 970,000 of us, for life ? Your passing the responsibility for securing our identities and credit to US, the injured parties, after your unexcusable laxity, is SPECIOUS. Gonna bring Stockard Channing in to make excuses for you?
A truly disgusting lot of cheapskate cowards. may this take you DOWN. see ya in court
I have read on several different sites that AIG/Medical Excess is providing free credit services for a year for individuals who received the infamous letter.
I called AIG/Medical Excess and they stated that this is not true. Anyone know why this is being falsely reported?
I contacted AIG, and they said we are covered for one year in case if something happened to you(lost time, and court fee etc..), so I said if something happened to me i would be to late, I asked for minimum one year monitoring service, if they don\’t I\’m ready to start a class action suit.
I agree a class action is the way to go….if they covered us for a year for any fraudulent activity ….when does it start when the info was stolen or starting the three months when they actually informed us by letter…
MadAsHell said:
> I have read on several different sites
> that AIG/Medical Excess is providing
> free credit services for a year for
> individuals who received the infamous
> letter.
Which sites? Are any of them official, or is it just people repeating what they\’ve heard through the grape vine?
It just says AIG will tell people how to get protection. It says they didn\’t know whether they\’d PAY FOR it (and my guess it that that they\’ve decided not to).
Not just us as Victims, we\’ll let\’s see if member of al Qaeda got hold of that list, they can assume the identite of anybody, create an ID, then id they blew up anything, the FBI HSS will be looking for the person they assume his identity.
That what I sait to AIG when I called, so they created a case for me.
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Reason 1: the VA was incredibly negligent; AIG wasn\’t (as far as I can tell).
Reason 2: The VA needs to keep its customers happy, AIG doesn\’t.
Why do you blame AIG to the tune of a billion bucks?
Is it that they had your data? I personally blame my insurance company.
Is it that they were burglarized? Lots of companies are burglarized every day.
Is it that their security or procedures were bad? As far as I can tell, they were average for the industry. If you have any evidence, they were sub-par, I\’d love to hear it. The whole industry needs to get better, but we shouldn\’t single out AIG for that.
Of course, identity theft prevention is big business, why shouldn\’t AIG/MedicalExcess reap the benefits along with all the other companies that prey on the misfortune and paranoia of the multitutde of nameless, faceless everyday citizens (a.k.a. \”us\”). Occurrances like these are a boon to credit reporting agencies. For example, if just 5% of those affected by this one instance of mass ID theft subsequently subscribed to Experian\’s Credit Manager service to avail themselves of
\”• Unlimited credit reports and scores
• Daily credit monitoring with email alerts
• $10 off 3 Bureau Credit Report upgrades\”
then AIGs boo boo = half a million dollar bump in Experian\’s annual sales.
One person writes about the Bush Administration\’s insatiable appetite for information on us all, well hey, I\’d be all for it if the government could provide a useful service to us for our tax dollars, as Experian can, for a fee.
make that,
For example, if just .5% of those affected by this one instance of mass ID theft . . . if 5% signed up, it would be nearly a 6 million dollar bump in sales!
AIG describes itself as \”the leading international insurance organization with operations in more than 130 countries and
jurisdictions.\” An AIG member company announced earlier this year that it
now offers identity-theft insurance coverage.
So HOW BOUT IT AIG ?? you claim \”valuable\” $10K servers were stolen. a pittance. were they and the data adequately secured ? NO. gross negligence. so how bout free identity-theft insurance, all 970,000 of us, for life ? Your passing the responsibility for securing our identities and credit to US, the injured parties, after your unexcusable laxity, is SPECIOUS. Gonna bring Stockard Channing in to make excuses for you?
A truly disgusting lot of cheapskate cowards. may this take you DOWN. see ya in court
I have read on several different sites that AIG/Medical Excess is providing free credit services for a year for individuals who received the infamous letter.
I called AIG/Medical Excess and they stated that this is not true. Anyone know why this is being falsely reported?
I contacted AIG, and they said we are covered for one year in case if something happened to you(lost time, and court fee etc..), so I said if something happened to me i would be to late, I asked for minimum one year monitoring service, if they don\’t I\’m ready to start a class action suit.
I agree a class action is the way to go….if they covered us for a year for any fraudulent activity ….when does it start when the info was stolen or starting the three months when they actually informed us by letter…
MadAsHell said:
> I have read on several different sites
> that AIG/Medical Excess is providing
> free credit services for a year for
> individuals who received the infamous
> letter.
Which sites? Are any of them official, or is it just people repeating what they\’ve heard through the grape vine?
This is the closest thing I\’ve found:
http://news.morningstar.com/news/DJ/M06/D15/200606151620DOWJONESDJONLINE000940.html
It just says AIG will tell people how to get protection. It says they didn\’t know whether they\’d PAY FOR it (and my guess it that that they\’ve decided not to).
Not just us as Victims, we\’ll let\’s see if member of al Qaeda got hold of that list, they can assume the identite of anybody, create an ID, then id they blew up anything, the FBI HSS will be looking for the person they assume his identity.
That what I sait to AIG when I called, so they created a case for me.
I think the letter says that if your identify is compromised, THEN you get the service for a year.