UK’s Information Commissioner repeats call for stronger sentences for data...
In the wake of another ridiculously light penalty for data theft, U.K.’s Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham, has repeated his call for stronger penalties. The comments come as an employee of...
View ArticleWI: Mental health patients’ and disability benefits applicants’ info on...
Scott Trippe is a licensed psychologist in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, doing business as ST Psychotherapy. He’s also affiliated with Fox River Counseling, also in Oshkosh. On December 23, ST Psychotherapy...
View ArticleAussie steel giant sues ex-manager for data theft
Jonathan Pearlman reports: Australian steel giant BlueScope Steel has launched legal action to try and retrieve “highly sensitive” information from a Singapore- based former manager, Ms Chinnari...
View ArticleNY: St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital notifies patients after thumb drive with...
In reading the following statement from the hospital, keep in mind that the hospital’s home page says the incident involves the “possible disclosure” of “a limited number” of patients’ personal...
View ArticleMT: New West Medicare notifying 25,000 members whose unencrypted PHI were on...
Montana Public Radio reports that New West Health Services is notifying 25,000 members after a laptop with their PHI was stolen. Here’s the statement that was posted on New West Medicare’s site today,...
View ArticleTW: Siliconware Precision Industries engineer probed over suspected data theft
Julian Ho and Jessie Shen report: Taiwan’s Investigation Bureau has received a request from Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) to investigate an engineer suspected of stealing confidential company...
View ArticleKR: Credit card firms ordered to compensate consumers for data leak
The Korea Herald reports the latest development in a massive data leak first reported at the end of 2013: A local court on Friday ordered three credit card-related companies, hit by a massive data leak...
View ArticleAlaska Orthopedic Specialists Notifies Patients of Security Incident
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 22, 2016 — Alaska Orthopedic Specialists has sent notification to all affected patients about a security incident involving information that was taken by a former non-physician...
View ArticleCalifornia hematologist notifies patients after thief stole paper records...
Sometimes I find a breach listed on HHS’s public breach tool, but it’s a while before I can find out what happened. Such was the case with a breach reported by Michael S. Benjamin, MD, a California...
View ArticleWinnipeg patient health information stolen from nurse’s vehicle
CBC News reports: A bag that contained personal health information of Winnipeg patients was stolen from an on-duty nurse’s parked vehicle on Jan. 14, the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority said...
View ArticleZA: Espionage feared in laptop theft
Mayibongwe Maqhina reports: The DA suspects espionage might be at play in the theft of laptops belonging to members. KwaZulu-Natal DA MPL Francois Rodgers and another staff member lost their laptops...
View ArticleStolen Oregon Health & Science University hard drive contained babies’...
Data breach incident December 2015 involving stolen OHSU hard drive 02/10/16 Portland, Ore. On December 6, 2015, an OHSU research student’s car was broken into and a hard drive was stolen. The hard...
View ArticleStolen Shire laptop contained patients’ personal and medical info
Pharmaceutical company Shire is notifying an unspecified number of individuals that their personal and medical information was on a laptop stolen from an employee’s car in Washington D.C. The laptop,...
View ArticleLA: Two Cypress Bayou Casino administrators accused of computer fraud,...
The Advocate reports: State troopers arrested the general manager and chief financial officer of Cypress Bayou Casino in Charenton Wednesday on allegations both played a role in stealing $5,700 from...
View ArticleBay Area Chiropractic Center patient info allegedly stolen by doctor to open...
It seems that Bay Area Chiropractic Center LLC had a breach in 2015 that they first reported to Oregon this month. The breach occurred between June 1, 2015 and August 31, 2015, and was discovered on...
View ArticleKS: Laptop with sensitive personal and medical info stolen from Valley Hope...
Valley Hope Association in Kansas provides alcohol, drug, and related treatment services and have done so since 1967, according to their site. Despite their extensive and long history of experience,...
View ArticleIL: FHN Memorial Hospital reveals hard drive with patient info was stolen in...
Adam Poulisse reports: A computer hard drive containing patient information was stolen from FHN Memorial Hospital in December. The hard drive did not contain medical records, but did have internal...
View ArticleStolen contractor laptop had special-education student data for Montgomery...
Donna St. George reports: A contractor working with the Montgomery County school system has informed the parents of about 340 special-education students that the children’s private data was on a...
View ArticleEye Institute of Corpus Christi notifies patients of breach
Here’s yet another case where patients’ personal information and protected health information was stolen and used to solicit patients to another practice. The Eye Institute of Corpus Christi, through...
View ArticleNL: Records of 781 cancer patients stolen from hospital car park
Negligence and laziness are not uniquely American phenomena. In this case, the researcher was violating policy, with all-too-predictable results: A hard drive containing the medical records of 781...
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