Terminated firefighter enters plea in stolen data case
Walt Buteau reports: A terminated veteran East Greenwich firefighter pleaded no contest in a case involving missing data used to repair and maintain the emergency alarm system that protects town-owned...
View ArticleNow it’s personal: 32 jailed in China for stealing 39 million pieces of...
Mandy Zuo reports: A three-year investigation by police in southwest China into personal data theft has ended with 32 people behind bars and several more awaiting trial, state media reported. More than...
View ArticleCa: Laptop with personal information of up to 225 minors stolen from Thompson...
The Thompson Citizen reports: Personal information of up to 225 minors may have been on a laptop that was stolen from the Northern Regional Health Authority (NRHA) administration building in March. The...
View ArticleCa: Patient data stolen during theft at Red Deer hospital
Mamta Lulla reports: Alberta Health Services is notifying 6,129 patients that their health information may have been viewed by someone other than their authorized care providers. The measure follows...
View ArticleAU: Specsavers says Qld customers’ private medical information may have been...
Sarah Jane Bell and Ross Kay report that an undisclosed numbers of Specsavers customers have had their personal and medical information stolen: “Contents may include your name, date of birth, address,...
View ArticleMN: Woodbury’s Merrill Arts Center hit with data theft
Bob Shaw reports: A list of donors and patrons of the Merrill Arts Center in Woodbury has been stolen. Board president Jeriann Jevning-Jones reported the theft to the Woodbury Police, saying the theft...
View ArticleFL: 2nd Employee Arrested In WellCare Laptop Thefts
D’Ann Lawrence White reports: A second employee has been arrested in connection with the theft of laptop computers from WellCare at 8724 Henderson Road in Town n’ Country. The Hillsborough County...
View ArticleBreak-in at medical records centre behind discovery of personal files in...
There’s an update to a news story that was first reported in June. TheJournal.ie now reports that the HSE has admitted that there was a break-in involving storage containers at St. Conal’s medical...
View ArticleUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln offering identity protection after laptop with...
Chris Dunker reports: More than 900 current and former employees of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources have been offered identity theft protection after...
View ArticleAU: More than 100,000 UWA students’ data may be compromised after laptop thefts
Bethany Hiatt reports: More than 100,000 former University of WA students were today alerted their personal data may have been compromised after thieves stole 20 laptops from an administration...
View ArticleAttackers Break Into Home of Investigative Journalist, Kill Her Dogs and...
Chantal Da Silva reports: The Committee to Protect Journalists is calling on Mexican authorities to “immediately and credibly” investigate an attack on a nationally-renowned investigative journalist’s...
View ArticleRecords with Information on 770 Elder Abuse or Dependent Adult Abuse Cases...
CBS reports: Nearly 800 paper files containing sensitive information were stolen last month from a Riverside County employee’s vehicle, the county announced Thursday. The records, stolen July 27,...
View ArticleFDNY EMS Notifies More Than 10,000 Patients of Possible Data Breach
NBC reports: More than 10,000 patients whom the FDNY EMS had previously treated and or transported were notified that their personal information may have been compromised after an employee’s personal...
View ArticleUniversity of Hong Kong’s medicine department ‘sorry’ for patient data breach
Raymond Yeung reports: Hong Kong’s top medical school has expressed its “deepest apologies” after a laptop computer containing the personal data of more than 3,600 patients was suspected to have been...
View ArticleAndy Frain Services reports stolen laptop, but were they also hacked?
Andy Frain Services has reported a breach to the California Attorney General’s Office. The breach reportedly occurred on May 2, and their letter to those affected begins: We are writing with important...
View ArticleCa: NWT faces lawsuit over over 2018 health data breach that could affect all...
Canadian Press reports: The Northwest Territories is facing a lawsuit over a stolen laptop containing medical files that could include information on every resident in the territory. […] The lawsuit...
View ArticleCamera Containing Autopsy Photos Stolen From Loyola University Medical Center...
Megan Hickey reports: Loyola University Medical Center confirmed that a camera containing the autopsy photos of several patients over a period of more than a year was stolen from the hospital’s...
View ArticleCheck-in computers stolen in Atlanta hold statewide voter data
Mark Niesse Arielle Kass report: Two computers that are used to check in voters were stolen from a west Atlanta precinct hours before polls opened Tuesday for a city school board election. [..] The...
View ArticleWho stole data from Aircraft Carrier INS Vikrant? Espionage angle in Cochin...
Jijo Jacob reports: The data theft at INS Vikrant, India’s first Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC), has taken a national security dimension with reports saying that the espionage angle cannot be ruled...
View ArticleAhmedabad: 72 sacks of ID documents stolen from health centre
TNN reports that 72 sacks full of vital documents of citizens have gone missing from AMC’s urban health centre in Vejalpur. This is one of those data breaches that make you just … groan. The documents...
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