Laptops are still being stolen from unattended vehicles. So why are they...
Today’s somewhat infuriating breach notification is from the city of Banos, California. On or before January 31, the city notified people who had personal information on a laptop that was stolen from...
View ArticleUK: Concerns after patient information stolen from doctor’s car
Maia Snow reports: Concerns have been expressed after documents containing patient information was stolen from a doctor’s car in the north of the county. The Castle Medical Group, in Burton Road,...
View ArticleAmerican HomePatient Data Breach Class Action Settlement
Top Class Actions reports: American HomePatient has agreed to pay $1 million to resolve claims that they failed to protect patient data in a burglary incident. The settlement benefits current or former...
View Article3 arrested after authorities raid Coalinga home filled with patient records,...
John Parmer and Paul Schlesinger report: Officers and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents arrested three people Wednesday after raiding a Coalinga home that contained hundreds of patient...
View ArticleVegas woman charged with running ID theft lab
A Las Vegas woman is charged with operating an identity theft lab after police said they found a cache of stolen mail, medical records from cancer patients and Social Security numbers in her...
View ArticleSt Kilda players’ medical files stolen in car smash-and-grab
Chris Vedelago and Cameron Houston Private medical information belonging to players at St Kilda Football Club is missing after a bag belonging to the team doctor was stolen from a car parked outside...
View ArticleWalmart reports that some patient data may have been stolen by looters during...
I think this is the first notice I’ve seen of this kind. Notice of Data Incident A number of retail establishments across the country have recently been impacted by widespread civil unrest. On May 31,...
View ArticleLifespan Pays $1,040,000 to OCR to Settle Unencrypted Stolen Laptop Breach
In April, 2017, Lifespan issued a statement disclosing a stolen laptop incident involving unencrypted protected health information. In at least two places in their statement they claim that they are...
View ArticleMore pharmacy chains report HIPAA breaches linked to looting during protests
First it was Walmart disclosing that their pharmacies in stores in California and Chicago had suffered damage and theft by looters of medications ready for pickup with patient information on labels....
View ArticleCa: Health records found at Fort Simpson dump may have been stolen: report
Katherine Barton reports a long-awaited update to a 2018 incident where the investigation was delayed due to backlog: The Northwest Territories’ privacy commissioner’s investigation into medical...
View ArticleSome Cub Pharmacies in Minnesota report breaches due to looters
Cub Pharmacies is the fourth chain I’ve seen that is reporting some theft of protected health information related to looters during protests in May. But when you read the descriptions of these events...
View ArticleZA: Social grant applications found dumped in Ndedwe
Nothando Mkhize reports that a pile of social grant applications were found on a street in Ndwedwe. The South African Post Office is investigating to see if they were stolen from a post office during a...
View ArticleDefendant had no reasonable expectation of privacy in his employer’s...
FourthAmendment.com highlights a court opinion out of Massachusetts: Defendant is charged with accessing and taking his employer’s information for the purpose of setting up a rival company doing the...
View ArticleWA: Patient records stolen from Edmonds clinic, recovered by police
Brian Soergel reports: On Aug. 31, employees of the Health and Wellness Clinic at 22005 76th Ave. W in Edmonds discovered that a storage room where patient records were kept was broken into, according...
View ArticleTaiwan’s UMC pleads guilty, fined $60 mln in trade secret theft case
Reuters reports: Taiwan’s UMC has pleaded guilty to trade secret theft in the United States and will pay a $60 million fine in a case where it was accused of helping a Chinese state-owned chipmaker...
View ArticleHelena Public Schools notifies some employees after burglar snatched USB with...
Helena Public Schools recently notified some current and former employees involved in the after-school student program that their data was on a stolen USB drive. According to their notification letter,...
View Article5th Avenue Theatre Takes Action Following Theft of Employee Data in August
SEATTLE, Dec. 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — The 5th Avenue Theatre (the “Theatre”) announced today that it suffered a break-in and theft which it first learned of on August 30, 2020 (the “Incident”). The...
View ArticleDecrypted: How bad was the US Capitol breach for cybersecurity?
Zack Whittaker reports on concerns that were raised after the massive security failure at the Capitol that resulted in attackers having access to papers, hard drives and more. Zack reiterates some...
View ArticleWinnipeg Regional Health Authority is contacting 58 people after a data breach
ChrisD reports: The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority is contacting 58 people after a data breach. The WRHA says a home care employee had a bag stolen from her vehicle containing employees’ daily...
View ArticleNL: A hard disk with data of 30,000 people stolen from the Amsterdam tax office
Jeffrey Clark reports: A hard drive was stolen from a computer used to scan incoming mail items from Municipal Tax Service buildings in Amsterdam. Alderman Victor Everhardt (Finance) wrote this in a...
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