Blue Cross: Theft of employee’s computer may have compromised 15,000...
Dave Bartkowiak Jr. reports: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan announced Friday that the personal data of nearly 15,000 of Medicare Advantage members may have been compromised after an employee’s...
View ArticleSolis Mammography notifies 500 patients and HHS after laptop theft
Their press release of December 14: Ben-Ora, Hansen & Vanesian Imaging, Ltd. d/b/a Solis Mammography (“Solis”) is committed to protecting the confidentiality and security of our patients’...
View ArticleConvicted terrorist charged with stealing hard drive with victim data on it
AP reports: Belgian authorities said Wednesday that they have arrested a man who served jail time on terrorism charges over the theft of a computer hard drive containing autopsy reports about the...
View ArticleCa: UCP members ‘at risk for identity theft’ after laptop stolen, expert says
Lucie Edwardson reports: The United Conservative Party‘s privacy policies are being questioned after a party laptop was stolen out of an employee’s car in a parkade. The laptop contains the names,...
View ArticlePH: Locsin says ‘pissed’ contractor ‘took all’ passport data
Katrina Domingo reports: MANILA – Some Filipinos renewing their passports may have to present their birth certificates as an additional requirement after a passport production contractor the government...
View ArticleAll-Star Orthopaedics Provides Notice of Patient-Data Breach
Dallas, TX, January 18, 2019 –(PR.com)– All-Star Orthopaedics is notifying individuals that a hard drive with patient data was stolen on November 20, 2018. At this time, All-Star Orthopaedics has no...
View ArticleNJ: Addictions Recovery Provider Integrity House Notifies Individuals of...
From their notification: NEWARK, NEW JERSEY – January 18, 2019 – Integrity House has become aware of a potential data security incident that may have resulted in unauthorized access to personal...
View ArticleAnesthesia Associates of Kansas City notifies 3,472 patients after surgery...
The notice on their web site: Notice to Our Patients of Recent Privacy Incident Anesthesia Associates of Kansas City is committed to protecting the confidentiality and security of our patients’...
View ArticlePap smears, STIs and flu: What the N.W.T. gov’t didn’t tell you about a...
Priscilla Hwang provides a troubling update on a stolen laptop incident disclosed last year. This story is Part 1 of 3 on the stolen laptop files. Part 2 is scheduled for Tuesday and Part 3 will...
View ArticleN.W.T. employee dug through planters, trash to find stolen laptop, weeks...
Priscilla Hwang reports: This is part 2 of three stories on the stolen laptop files. Here’s part 1. Part 3 is scheduled for next week. The N.W.T. government employee who was responsible for a laptop...
View ArticleMT: Rocky Boy Health Center reports breach of personal patient information
MTN News reports: There was a breach of personal patient information at the Rocky Boy Health Center recently. On Thursday evening, Rocky Boy Health Center CEO Jessica Windy Boy posted on the Center’s...
View ArticleOklahoma Heart Hospital notifies patients after thieves steal computers from...
KFOR-TV and K. Querry report that Oklahoma Heart Hospital is notifying 1,221 patients following a January burglary that resulted in the theft of four desktop computers from an outpatient clinic. The...
View ArticleStolen N.W.T. laptop was among dozens that were unencrypted and handed out to...
This is Part 3 of a 3-part series on a stolen laptop. If you missed the earlier parts, you can find them here: Part 1 and Part 2. Priscilla Hwang reports: The N.W.T. government’s information...
View ArticleAnother business associate breach, another gap to notification of patients
So here’s yet another breach with what seems like a long delay to notification. In this case, Re-Solutions, a division of RSC Insurance Brokerage in Massachusetts, is a business associate to healthcare...
View ArticleBoxes of documents including possible personal tax information showed up at a...
Laura Christmas reports from Alabama: Monday morning when employees came to work at a Marshall County recycling center, they found boxes of documents that included people’s personal information in what...
View ArticleSpain: FBI offered data stolen in N. Korean raid
AP reports: Spain has issued at least two international arrest warrants for members of a self-proclaimed human rights group who allegedly led a mysterious raid at the North Korean Embassy in Madrid...
View ArticleWRHA: Client Data Breached After Bag Stolen from Car
The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority says a bag was stolen last month containing the personal information of several clients. The bag was taken from an unattended parked vehicle of a WRHA employee on...
View ArticleWSU to pay up to $4.7 million for data theft involving 1.2 million people
Breaches that involve health data generally will cost you more. Asia Fields reports: Washington State University learned a costly lesson after a hard drive containing the personal information of more...
View ArticleUnited Way of the Big Bend investigates possible data security breach
WTXL reports: The United Way of the Big Bend is investigating a possible data security breach that occurred when taxpayer information was stolen from an employee in March. The organization says that 64...
View ArticleIn: Files feared stolen from GST Intel records room
Wow. As far as a physical security FAIL goes, this is a contender. The Ahmedabad Mirror reports: Officials of the Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) in Gujarat on Sunday lodged a complaint...
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