It looks like McDonald’s made a media hat trick this week in terms of dishonest employees and card fraud or ID theft. First, employees in Illinois and Washington were caught skimming customers’ debit and credit cards, and now Dave Gibson reports on a case from Georgia: On Wednesday, Eva Ramos, 36, a former McDonald’s restaurant…
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PA: In the aftermath of a flood, a discarded computer leads to a breach notice
Steve Snyder reports in the Lebanon Daily News that Lebanon Internal Medicine Associates, P. C. of Pennsylvania has notified patients of a breach that occurred after a storm resulted in office flooding. The breach involved a computer that was used to support the practice’s on-site lab and had wound up under water following Tropical Storm…
16 Indicted In Colorado ID Theft Ring With 100+ Victims
Wayne Harrison reports: CENTENNIAL, Colo. — Sixteen people have been indicted by a grand jury on 168 counts, after law enforcement discovered that the group was responsible for a statewide identity theft ring that victimized over a hundred individuals and businesses across Colorado. Read more on The Denver Channel, but the coverage doesn’t give a…
Update to the SAIC/TRICARE breach
From TRICARE: Letters are being mailed from Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) to affected military clinic and hospital patients regarding a data breach involving personally identifiable and protected health information (PII/PHI). On Sept. 14, 2011, SAIC reported the loss of backup tapes containing electronic health care records used in the military health system (MHS) to…
UK: London's commercial trash contains lots of confidential data
Somewhat self-serving study, but the results are pretty much what I’d expect. In fact, I’m surprised that they didn’t find more: According to a study commissioned by the National Association for Information Destruction (NAID), Phoenix, many London-area organizations engage in the casual disposal of sensitive personal information. NAID commissioned the study to determine whether organization…
Recycled Medical Records Used As Scrap Paper At School
Esme Murphy reports: Detailed medical information discovered on the back of a first-grader’s school drawing sent Minneapolis school officials scrambling. […] The paper was being used as scrap paper for an after school program at the elementary school. After WCCO-TV made a phone call to the school, faculty searched and found more pieces of paper…