Vallejo-based Petrochem is notifying employees that a laptop with their personal information was stolen from a fellow employee’s car on July 18: On the evening of July 18, 2013, an unknown person broke into the locked car of a Petrochem employee and took a laptop computer, various documents and other items. Stored on the stolen laptop…
Month: October 2013
HHS's breach reporting: has it lived up to its promises and mandates – Sound off!
I’ve occasionally (*cough*) expressed my frustration with HHS’s breach tool and the fact that breaches do not get added to the tool immediately, their fields are confusing and they don’t provide the narrative from the breached entity that might better describe or explain the breach, and you can’t get the breach reports until HHS has…
UnityPoint Health notifies 1,800 patients after contractor's employee inappropriately accessed electronic medical records
Business Record reports: Law enforcement personnel are investigating a data breach of West Des Moines-based UnityPoint Health‘s electronic medical records (EMR) system. Personal information of approximately 1,800 hospital patients from across UnityPoint Health’s operating regions may be at risk from the security breach in the system, which was discovered Aug. 8 during the course of…
Statement from St. Mary's Janesville Hospital
St. Mary’s Janesville Hospital in Wisconsin, a member of SSM Health Care, posted this statement on their web site today: On August 27, 2013, we received a report that an SSM Health Care laptop was stolen from an employee’s car during a break-in. We are sincerely sorry this happened and want to provide pertinent information…
Updates to HHS's breach tool
HHS has updated its public breach tool again. Let’s start with the ones we already knew about: The Wm. Jennings Bryan Dorn VAMC breach involving a laptop lost in February affected 7,405. The patient data theft involving an employee at South Shore Physicians in New York resulted in notification to 8,000, although the employee was charged with stealing 80…
IN: Telecom Company Being Investigated for Information Breach
An update on the TerraCom breach reported previously on this blog. Brandon Smith reports: The Attorney General’s office updated lawmakers Monday on a nearly five-month long investigation of telecommunications company TerraCom Incorporated. […] Tolliver says a lot of the information the state has obtained has come from the media outlet that first uncovered the breach…