Brittany Pieper reports that the City of Shreveport, Louisiana left lots of personal and sensitive information lying around when they held a pre-demolition auction of furnishings at the City Hall Annex building. People found boxes of records with breath alcohol tests, signatures, SSNs, addresses, ID cards, and a whole lot more. KSLA News 12 asked…
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The NHS IT worker who snooped on hundreds of patients' records
AN IT manager for the NHS in Yorkshire has been warned he faces jail after admitting illegally spying on medical records of patients. Dale Trever, 22, was working for a primary care trust as a data quality manager when he accessed patient records – all for women and mostly for his family, friends and colleagues….
Van Dyke’s Restorers notifies customers of potential disclosure of info
Bear with me, folks, because this one is a bit confusing. I am looking at an undated letter to customers that Van Dyke’s Restorers sent out, but there is no attached report or cover letter to the Vermont Attorney General’s Office that has been posted online. Vermont’s site indicates a date of August 8,…
Burglary at SanDiegoFit.com office: computer with customer data stolen
Through their lawyers at Foley & Lardner, SanDiegoFit.com, an online women’s apparel site, reported that on August 30, there was a burglary at their locked, alarm-protected building that resulted in the theft of a computer containing customer data. In its notification to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office dated September 10, the company reported that…
Cardinal Health notifies employees and applicants of missing laptop
When a good samaritan contacted Ohio-based Cardinal Health in mid-June to tell them that a used laptop purchased on eBay contained company information, Cardinal Health recovered the laptop and began to investigate. Under their policies, data on decommissioned computers are to be securely deleted by their IT department and then securely destroyed by a vendor….
Woman charged in Tredyffrin ID theft
Richard Ilgenfritz reports: A Maryland woman is behind bars this week in Chester County on $25,000 bail in connection with an international ID-theft ring with tentacles that reached from the Main Line through Maryland to Canada, Ecuador, England, China and Vietnam. Police identified the suspect as Sheila Oleta Myers, 53, of the 6500 block of…