Tomoya Shimura reports: Medical records at the Westside Park Elementary School Based Health Center may have been accessed when the county clinic was burglarized, San Bernardino County officials said Tuesday. Staff at the clinic in the 18200 block of Casaba Road discovered the burglary on Oct. 1. In addition to damages to the building, office…
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More on the Wounded Warrior Project laptops theft
Back in September, I noted that a burglary at Wounded Warrior Project’s Jacksonville headquarters may have compromised some employees’ information. WWP’s notification to the Maryland Attorney General’s Office is now available online, and so we now have some additional details: Information on the stolen laptops included employees’ names, addresses, passport numbers, Social Security numbers, dates…
AZ: Public printing of court documents halted due to security breach
Scott Orr reports: Citing a security breach in a software update, Sandra K. Markham, clerk of Yavapai County Superior Court, on Monday ordered that the ability to print documents from public-access court document computer terminals be shut down. “One of my clerks was being an investigator, and she just tried to see if something he…
Maybe next time they’ll heed the warning? (updated)
One of the privacy cases that I covered over the last 5+ years on PogoWasRight.org concerned the government’s ability to require extensive background checks on employees and employees of contractors. That case, NASA v. Nelson, was eventually decided by the Supreme Court in January 2011. EPIC had filed an amicus brief in the case on…
Sierra Plastic Surgery notifies patients of privacy and data security breach that occurred in 2011
Aha. We now have some information on a breach that had been posted to HHS’s breach tool on October 19. At that time, I had blogged: Sierra Plastic Surgery in Nevada was hacked or had a network compromise between August 19, 2011 and September 20, 2011, but are apparently just reporting it to HHS now –…
UK: Kind charity raided in break-in and computer stolen
Jonathan Collinson reports: A computer containing vital information needed to help deprived families in Liverpool was stolen from a children’s charity. Police officers were called to the Kind charity offices in Back Canning Street, in the city centre, to a report that a window had been broken and a computer stolen from inside Read more…