Tag archive for ‘data breach’
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 [...]
Rip of the Week: It Gets Worse: 860,000 More Victims of Stolen Laptop Data Breach
The Gainsville Sun reports a further development on a breach that was first reported back in February. Originally, a figure of 208,000 victims was posted, though now the original figure is pegged at 360,000.
Regardless, an additional 860,000 current and former members of AvMed are being notified that their personal information is at risk due to [...]
HIMSS Report Reveals False Sense of Security for Patient Data
A report from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) reveals some interesting new findings about the state of data security in the healthcare sector and, as most would agree, healthcare-related data is among the most sensitive of all. Healthcare IT News has a very helpful summary article about the report, and a blog [...]
Rip of the Week: Psychiatric Hospital Breaches Data of 24,600
Here’s another medical data breach–and a second one from Kentucky recently, no less. Last week’s Rip involved Bowling Green, with a breach of 5,418. This week, we’re hearing about Our Lady of Peace, a psychiatric hospital.
Officials there are sending letters to 24,600 patients affected by the loss of a flash drive. The Courier-Journal reports, and [...]
5,418 Patients Breached by Medical Center
This week’s theft (rip) involves yet another unencrypted external hard drive. kirniki gives the tip-off to an article at Info Tech that gives the details. The Medical Center at Bowling Green discovered the theft on April 1.
Apparently, the stolen hard drive contained patient names, dates of birth, medical record numbers, addresses, and physician names, and [...]
Rip of the Week: More Than 3,526 Patients Breached by Doctor Traveling in South Korea
Newswise carries a press release from the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary stating that more than 3,526 patients were affected by a data breach on February 19, 2010. Dr. Robert Levine, a neurologist with a focus on tinnitus (ringing in the ears), was traveling in South Korea when his laptop was stolen.
On that laptop was [...]
UPDATE: Breached Data of 3.3 Million Student Loan Borrowers Found…In Police Evidence Room
Here’s an update to a recent Rip of the Week concerning 3.3 million breached records of federal student loan recipients. It turns out that the data, which existed on “CDs and floppy discs,” was recovered shortly after the theft and was only recently discovered in a police evidence room, and connected to the case.
WCCO reports, [...]
Rip of the Week: 447,549 MORE People Breached by BlueCross BlueShield Incident
Things continue to get worse for a major theft from BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee. Back on October 2, 2009, 57 computer hard drives were stolen from an office at the state’s largest health insurer. The breach incident page at DataLossDB is a good clearinghouse for information on the theft. The hard drives contained a large [...]
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