Tonia Moxley reports that a computer in Virginia Tech controller’s office was infected by a virus that sent Social Security numbers and some financial data on current and former employees overseas before it was detected: About 370 people were affected, and all have been notified by mail of the security breach. The university will pay…
Month: March 2011
UWindsor sends 650 tax slips to wrong people
The University of Windsor Finance Department mistakenly sent about 650 income tax slips to the wrong people, meaning personal information, including social insurance numbers, ended up in someone else’s mailbox. […] “I received two envelopes. Both were addressed to me so I opened them both,” said Kennedy. “One had all of my information in it,…
What's 100,000 more or less in a data breach, right?
It may be a measure of how blasé we’ve become about data breaches. Today’s newly revealed Health Net breach reportedly affected 1.9 million members, employees, and providers. Now that’s a huge number, right? But I guess some in the media decided that a headline with 1.9 million just wasn’t sexy enough, because tonight I see…
Yet another Health Net breach raises disturbing questions
More is starting to come out about the Health Net breach involving missing server drives that we first learned of earlier today in a press release from CT’s Attorney General. His press release was followed by a press release from Health Net. Now a few more details have emerged: Kathy Robertson of the Sacramento Business…
Yet another Health Net breach raises disturbing questions
More is starting to come out about the Health Net breach involving missing server drives that we first learned of earlier today in a press release from CT’s Attorney General. His press release was followed by a press release from Health Net. Now a few more details have emerged: Kathy Robertson of the Sacramento Business…
Edmonton hospital hard drive with hundreds of patient records missing
Elise Stolte reports: Two hundred thirty-three Covenant Health patient folders containing about 3,600 photos and two videos are on an unencrypted hard drive that has gone missing, said Patrick Dumelie, president and CEO, at a media event Monday morning. Dumelie stresses that the original files are safe and that while all of the files contain…