Pat Warren reports: The Baltimore Regional Benefit Office is reorganizing after what appears to be a privacy breach. A Baltimore employee of the benefits division was found with thousands of claims documents stacked in his office. “Any time that you’re evaluating the problems, you’re going to find other issues and other problems. We need management…
Month: July 2014
OH: Laptop with sensitive information stolen from Summit County Courthouse
Adam Ferrise reports: Someone stole a laptop computer and a flash drive Thursday from a court reporter’s office inside the Summit County Courthouse. The laptop and flash drive contained sensitive information about ongoing court cases, Summit County Sheriff Inspector Bill Holland said. Holland declined to specify what the computer contained or what cases because it…
UK constable accused of breaching data protection law to access women’s private info
RT reports: UK chief constable, Nick Gargan, is under criminal investigation for allegedly breaking data protection legislation to access personal information of younger females whom he’s accused of inappropriately propositioning. Previously stationed at Avon and Somerset, the former constable once held the position of chief of the National Policing Improvement Agency, and was reportedly tipped to…
AU: Medical centre in Narre Warren South breached privacy laws by keeping files in shed
Mex Cooper reports: A medical centre that kept sensitive health records of nearly 1000 patients in a garden shed on a disused property in Melbourne’s south-east has been reprimanded for breaching privacy laws. Boxes of records containing the personal details of patients were discovered at the Narre Warren South site when the shed at the…
NYPD finds mother lode of ID theft evidence — along with a gun and drugs — in man’s New Springville apartment, cops say
John Annese reports: A scam investigation at the borough’s Target stores led police to find a gun, ammo and a sophisticated set of credit card-forging equipment inside a suspect’s New Springville apartment, authorities allege. Police found the items inside the home of Sung Lee, 32, on the 400 block of Klondike Avenue, according to court…
22.8 million New Yorkers’ personal records exposed
AP reports: Nearly 23 million private records of New Yorkers have been exposed in data security breaches reported by more than 3,000 businesses, nonprofits and governments over the past eight years, New York’s attorney general reported. Deliberate hacking was responsible for 40 percent of the 5,000 incidents, which exposed a majority of the records, followed…