A Whiting-Turner vendor seems to have had a breach, although the nature of the breach or numbers affected are not clear. From WT’s notification template: Whiting-Turner is writing to inform you of a recent event that may affect the security of your child’s personal information. We are providing this notice to provide you, the parent/guardian, with…
Month: April 2016
IA: Private student documents found at recycling center
Holly Hines reports: Documents found at an Iowa City recycling center last month contain personal information about local elementary school students, including their names, addresses and parents’ names. Antonio Montoya, a 22-year-old Iowa State University student, said he visited City Carton Recycling on March 19 and noticed a pile of Grant Wood Elementary students’ Individualized Education Program documents, which detail…
TX: Two found guilty of ID theft in ruse
Gabrielle Banks reports: A pair of low-level Houston managers at one of the nation’s largest trash collection companies were convicted in federal court Friday of stealing identities of more than 10 U.S. citizens and assigning them to undocumented garbage collectors. The undocumented workers involved in the identity theft scheme at an Afton Road hauling site…
OptumRx notifying patients after laptop with PHI stolen from vendor’s unattended vehicle
Now what vendor was this? I don’t see anything in recent reports or on HHS’s public breach tool that would identify the vendor. From a notification template by OptumRx: We wanted to make you aware of a recent incident that may have affected some of your health information. On March 22, 2016, we were notified…
Turkey: Leaked personal data not from election board
From the one-down-how-many-others-to-go? dept: The head of Turkey’s election authority on Friday said a recent massive online leak of personal data did not come from its system. “The information we obtained at the end of research we did at websites [with the leaked data] is compatible with databases we have given to political parties,” Supreme…
CN: Info of 200,000 babies leaked, causes panic among parents
Li Ruohan reports: Personal information of over 200,000 children in Jinan, East China’s Shandong Province, including the cellphone number and home address of their parents have been leaked, triggering widespread concerns on the possible consequences if criminals get hold of the data. The data was offered for 32,000 yuan ($4,900) from hospitals where the children…