Rip of the Week: It’s a Data Breach Medley
There are so many high-profile, damaging, data breach laptop thefts (and storage device thefts) in the news right now it seems impossible to pick just one. So, I won’t. Let’s have a fast roundup of several–a Data Breach Medley.
Verse 1: Car thieves get personal data on Portland psychology patients, unemployed Oregonians (thanks to Jake K and lyger on DataLoss DB)
4,000 psychology patients and 2,900 jobless residents breached by stolen laptop and stolen data storage device in Oregon.
Verse 2: Stolen laptop puts data at risk: Information on Texas Children’s Hospital patients was compromised (thanks to lyger on DataLoss DB)
Doctor’s laptop containing clinical and demographic information of about 1,600 patients stolen.
Verse 3: Fort Worth medical clinic spends $15,000 notifying patients of theft (thanks to security curmudgeon on DataLoss DB)
Employees at a Fort Worth allergy clinic found the office door kicked in and four computers gone, containing PII and SSNs for 25,000 patients.
Verse 4: Aultman Health Foundation Laptop Computer Stolen (thanks to Redemtech)
13,800 home health care patients breached by a stolen laptop.
Verse 5: Boise Employee Information on Lost Tape (thanks to Redemtech)
About 300 employees breached by a missing backup tape.
It’s difficult to decide where to stop once this river gets flowing. We’ll call it good at five.
data breach, lost laptop, Personally Identifiable Information, PII, Social Security number, SSN, stolen laptop
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This is a GREAT article, despite the dismay of breaches and data insecurities, in that it keeps one of my pet concerns front and center: Security. Everyone needs to be a mini-Security Officer today: Most individuals and organizations enjoy Security largely as a matter of luck. For some free insight check out this blog (can Google to it), “The Business-Technology Weave”. Anyone else here reading I.T. WARS? I had to read parts of this book as part of my employee orientation at a new job. The book talks about a whole new culture as being necessary – an eCulture – for a true understanding of security, being that most identity/data breaches are due to simple human errors. It has great chapters on security, as well as risk, content management, project management, acceptable use, various plans and policies, and so on. Google IT WARS – check out a couple links down and read the interview (full title is I.T. WARS: Managing the Business-Technology Weave in the New Millennium). “In the realm of risk, unmanaged possibilities become probabilities.” Keep “security” front and center! Great stuff.