UK: ICO issues £180,000 civil monetary penalty in wake of data breaches
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued civil monetary penalty (CMP) of £180,000 to the Money Shop in the wake of two incidents in 2014 that led to a fuller investigation of the Money...
View ArticleFormer U.S. Postal Service Employee Sentenced To Federal Prison For Theft Of...
BATON ROUGE, LA –United States Attorney Walt Green announced that Chief U.S. District Judge Brian A. Jackson sentenced LARONDA D. MOORE, age 38, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, yesterday to serve 32 months...
View ArticleUpdate: SterlingBackcheck breach impacted 100,000
On August 4, this site reported a stolen laptop containing background checks. The laptop belonged to SterlingBackcheck, and was stolen from an employee’s car. More details on the numbers are starting...
View ArticleFalciani court date set over bank data theft charges
SwissInfo.ch reports that a former HSBC employee is closer to standing trial on data theft charges in a case that has had international repercussions: The ex-HSBC employee accused of stealing secret...
View ArticleCa: Privacy breach class-action suit filed against Kiewit
There’s a follow-up to a breach previously noted on this site. The Telegram reports: St. John’s lawyer Bob Buckingham has filed a class-action lawsuit against Kiewit Energy for a privacy breach which...
View ArticleCourt affirms dismissal of lawsuit against Advocate Medical Group over 2013...
Ian Fullerton reports the latest development in a case that I’ve been following on PHIprivacy.net and this site since August 2013: Advocate Medical Group has been cleared in a case charging the...
View ArticleU. of Oklahoma College of Medicine – Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology...
Statement issued by University of Oklahoma College of Medicine – Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology on July 2, 2015: OU Physicians is committed not only to providing quality care, but also to...
View ArticlePsychiatrist leaves desktop with PHI in trunk of his car, and…. yes.
Robert E. Soper, M.D. is notifying current and former patients: During a visit to San Francisco On June 27 my car was broken into and my computer stolen, along with camera, suitcases, and other...
View ArticleUCLA Health notifying patients of stolen laptop containing personal health...
Hard to believe, but UCLA Health is notifying patients of yet another data breach. From a notice issued today: UCLA Health is sending notification letters to 1,242 individuals about the theft of a...
View ArticleCancer Care Group settles HHS charges over “widespread noncompliance” with...
In August 2012, I noted a breach involving the theft of backup media from an unattended vehicle of a Cancer Care Group employee. The backup contained information on 55,000 patients and employees. Now,...
View ArticleUK: Bank details of thousands of Lloyds’s customers stolen from insurer
Hilary Osborne reports: Bank details of thousands of Lloyds Premier account customers have been taken from an insurer, and customers have been warned to take out cover against fraud. Some Premier...
View ArticlePolice probe on 1MDB data theft can’t proceed without Justo, says IGP
Mayuri Mei Lin reports: Malaysia’s top policeman said Bukit Aman is still waiting for their Thai counterparts to respond to its request to record a statement from former PetroSaudi International...
View ArticleNJ Supreme Court upholds criminal indictment of school board employee who...
Jeffrey A. Gruen of Day Pitney LLP reports that the New Jersey Supreme Court upheld the criminal indictment of an employee who stole documents from her employer to support her employment lawsuit. It’s...
View ArticleVermont medical practice notifies patients after office burglary
Max M. Bayard, MD PC is notifying patients that their personal information was on devices stolen during an office burglary on August 5. The information included names, Social Security numbers, and some...
View ArticleLA: Laptop with 5,000 minors’ protected health info stolen from doctor’s...
Aw, c’mon, already, dammit! From the LSU Health Science Center, today: New Orleans, LA – A laptop stolen from a member of the faculty of LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine has potentially...
View ArticleAU: Compromised medical files used in Medicare scam
Megan Drapalski reports: A number of Macarthur region residents are victims of a Medicare scam that has resulted in suspected identity and monetary theft. Five medical facilities in Mt Annan,...
View ArticleWatchdog probe after Invest NI hit by series of data breaches
Simon Rowe reports: Invest NI has been hit by a series of data breaches, with two incidents leading to the disclosure of high-risk information, it can be revealed. […] There were six incidents of...
View ArticleCA: Outback Steakhouse employee info on stolen POS computer
Employees at the Outback Steakhouse in Northridge, California are learning that their personal information is in the hands of burglars. In a break-in that occurred on the evening of August 6, 2015,...
View ArticleAdvocate Health class action lawsuit trimmed
Linn Foster Freedman writes: Last week, an Illinois judge dismissed with prejudice five of the six claims levied against Advocate Health Care in a consolidated case of ten cases filed against it...
View ArticleMolina Healthcare notifies members that CVS employee stole some of their PHI...
Molina Healthcare is notifying members of a breach of protected health information (PHI) involving an employee of their vendor, CVS. In a letter dated September 17, they write: This is to let you know...
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