Tag archive for ‘data breach’
Rip of the Week: 12,500 Medical Records Breached by Shands
In a breach sure to end up listed on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services breach bad-list, Shands at the University of Florida sent notification letters to about 12,500 people, warning them of a laptop theft at the end of January.
The Independent Florida Alligator reports (and thanks to lyger on DataLossDB for the [...]
Rip of the Week: DHS Loses Over 1,000 Computers in One Fiscal Year
It’s hard to beat a Rip of the Week like this one. The Independence Institute reports that the Department of Homeland Security “continues to lose hundreds of computers per year.” According to John Caldera, the president of the Independence Institute, which investigated for the report, “You really have to look at these inventories, and go [...]
Rip of the Week: Hospital Apologizes for Medical Data Breach
We’ll combine a couple of medical data thefts for this week’s Rip of the Week.
First, the San Francisco Business Times reports that UC San Francisco reported a laptop theft that occurred on our about November 30, breaching 4,400 patients of the UCSF School of Medicine. The data included names, medical record numbers, age and clinical [...]
Rip of the Week: Al Gore’s Daughter, and 250,000 Others, Breached by National Archives
A quarter-million people were put at risk by the National Archives and Record Administration, when an unencrypted hard drive “disappeared” nearly a year ago.
Fox News reports on the RollCall.com article (thanks to lyger for the tip). Apparently, the hard drive had been sent to NARA during the Clinton administration and contained Personally Identifying Information (PII), [...]
The $31 Million Laptop
The Ponemon Institute, with sponsorship from PGP, has released their “Fifth Annual U.S. Cost of Data Breach Study.” As usual, the report is a treasure trove of great data (just like most people’s laptops are).
The average cost per breached data record rose $2 in 2009, to $204. That’s actually not too bad. The average cost [...]
Rip of the Week: 15,000 Kaiser Patients Breached by Unencrypted External Drive
This week’s Rip is another episode of the “unencrypted external hard drive” show. Thanks to lyger over at DataLossDB for the heads up. The Fresno Bee reports that an external hard drive was stolen, containing names, medical record numbers, and for some patients, ages, dates of birth, gender, phone numbers and other information related to [...]
Rip of the Week: 10,000 Detroiters At Risk After Data Breaches
Happy New Year to all! My hope would be for a 2010 that’s way better than 2009 with respect to the flood of data breaches. We shall see. I cannot say I’m truly optimistic.
This weeks’ Rip of the Week concerns two devices stolen from the health department in Detroit. Thanks go to Redemtech for the [...]
Red Tape Chronicles: After Data Loss, ID Theft Soars
Bob Sullivan over at The Red Tape Chronicles has posted an excellent piece on “Dear John Data Letters,” a name he’s given to the all-too-common notification letters that breaching organizations send to their “victims” (their customers whose data they’ve lost).
He says, “I call them Dear John data letters, because of the bad news they bring [...]
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