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Rip of the Week: South Carolina Hospital Breached by Laptop Theft

Another hospital has suffered a costly and dangerous data breach. This one, it turns out, actually happened a few months ago. WSPA reports that Spartanburg Regional Hospital in Spartanburg, SC, has warned “potentially thousands” of patients that their personal information could be at risk thanks to a stolen laptop. An employee’s work laptop was stolen [...]

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 [...]

207,000 US Army Reservists Breached by Stolen Laptop

In another serious breach involving the Personally Identifiable Information (PII) of US military personnel, the United States Army Reserves has reported the theft of three laptop computers, one of which contained a CD in the CD-ROM drive. Said CD contained the names, addresses and Social Security numbers of more than 207,000 reservists.
GovInfo Security reports that [...]

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 [...]

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: Medical Data of 5,306,000 Individuals Breached Since 2008

As the healthcare industry moves toward electronic medical records (EMRs), fear about their security continues to be fed by statistics such as these, reported by InformationWeek. Thanks to Redemtech for the tip. In a good synopsis, Nicole Lewis reports on a new study from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), which revealed that [...]

Rip of the Week: 3.3 Million Student Loan Borrowers Breached

If you are a college student, or were a college student, and you had a student loan, it’s time to worry. Officials of St. Paul-based Educational Credit Management Corp. revealed that an unencrypted portable device was stolen during the weekend of March 20-21. The Wall Street Journal reports, and thanks to kirniki on DLDB for [...]