Berkeley HeartLab (a Celera business) notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that in late September of this year, it learned that a former employee had accessed patient data in “2008 and/or 2009.” The employee subsequently went to work for an unnamed competitor, and BHL believes that the employee took the data for competitive purposes…
Author: Dissent
Healthcare most breached industry in 2011? Not by my analyses.
The following was originally posted to PHIprivacy.net. The carousel image for this post reflects 2011 statistics from DataLossDB and is used with permission. Note that healthcare sector breaches account for a smaller percentage of total breaches reported in 2011 compared to 2010 while business sector breaches account for a larger percentage of total breaches compared to…
IL: CEFCU warns of possible security breach (Update2)
Steve Tarter reports: The CEFCU credit union is contacting an unspecified number of its members about a possible security breach due to the theft of a laptop computer that contained some members’ names and account numbers. “We have to be careful. At this time, we have no evidence that any personal information on the laptop…
Former Austin hotel employee accused of stealing guests’ bank card information
KVUE reports that after receiving complaints from guests about fraudulent charges on their credit or debit cards, hotel security at the Stephen F. Austin Hotel managed to catch an employee skimming hotel guests’ cards. The hotel released the following statement Monday afternoon: “InterContinental Stephen F. Austin holds the safety, comfort and well-being of all guests and…
Update to UCLA Dept. of Psychology breach
On Saturday, I had noted a breach involving the UCLA Department of Psychology and had tried to alert the department to the breach. They never responded to my notification. Today, the student paper reports the breach. Their report suggests that the university may already have been aware of it before I tried to notify them….
GA: Crime victims’ personal information found in used car
A video news report from Georgia is worth noting. It seems a now-former police officer in the Clayton County Police Department sold his car to someone who, months later, discovered that a pad left in the car contained a lot of personal and sensitive details of crime victims and other incidents the officer had investigate….