Mansfield News Journal in Ohio reports: Area Agency on Aging serving several area counties said today that a laptop containing personal health information of thousands of clients was stolen two weeks ago from a vehicle. According to a press release from the Ohio District 5 office, the computer was assigned to a PASSPORT case manager and held…
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(update) NHS North Central London deny risk to patients over data loss
David Hardman reports that NHS North Central London claims there is a “very low risk” patients could be identified from the data on a laptop stolen from London Health Programmes that contained information on 8.63 million patients: One of the computers contained large amounts of personal details – according to a national newspaper it held…
Boulder Community Hospital involved in nurse ID theft case
Add Boulder Community Hospital to the Colorado hospitals whose patients had their information acquired and misused by a contract nurse. Jeffrey Wolf reports: The 9Wants to Know investigators have learned Cannon Tubb is also accused of rifling through patient records at Boulder Community Hospital. Tubb is awaiting extradition from Texas to face a 90-count felony…
Sega Pass Database Hacked, Account Information Compromised (update – LulzSec not responsible)
Sebastian Moss writes: Only moments ago, Sega sent out an email to their Sega Pass users informing them of the hack: Dear ___, As you may be aware, the SEGA Pass system has been offline since yesterday, Thursday 16 June. Over the last 24 hours we have identified that unauthorised entry was gained to our…
LulzSec: Be more afraid of what hasn’t been released publicly
Posted on Pastebin: Dear Internets, This is Lulz Security, better known as those evil bastards from twitter. We just hit 1000 tweets, and as such we thought it best to have a little chit-chat with our friends (and foes). For the past month and a bit, we’ve been causing mayhem and chaos throughout the Internet,…
Patients warned of data theft after burglary at Mill Valley doctor’s office
A reader kindly reminded me that I had posted something to PHIprivacy.net that probably should have been posted here as well, so here we go…. Will Jason reports: Patients at a Mill Valley medical office have been warned that credit card numbers and other personal information may have been compromised after a computer was…