14 DAY TRIAL // Last month, the Boston Teachers Union Health & Welfare Fund notified the Attorney General of New Hampshire that the personal details of 506 of its members were exposed.
According to the letter sent by the fund to the attorney general, the names and social security numbers were accessible on cladse.com.
The breach was discovered by one of the fund’s members on April 4 while performing a web search.
The cladse.com website is maintained by Classic Optical, the parent company of Classic Administrative Services, an organization hired by the Boston Teachers Union Health & Welfare Fund to administer the database of member information used to determine eligibility for vision benefits.
As soon as the incident was discovered, a security firm was called in to determine the cause of the incident and address the issue that led to it.
“Because the security breach was inadvertent, law enforcement has not been contacted. The Fund has no evidence that the personal information has been used for fraudulent purposes, but will be offering credit monitoring services to those whose social security numbers have been exposed,” the letter reads.