Add National Gypsum to any list you may be keeping of entities who had data on the two unencrypted DVDs that went missing in the February when Towers Watson’s delivery system seemingly lost the DVDs. The company sent a notification (pdf) to its employees and the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office at the beginning of…
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Impulse Monitoring denies responsibility for NVMS breach
As an update on a breach reported earlier this month (here), Pamela Lewis Dolan of amednews.com reports: Meanwhile, Impulse Monitoring, a Columbia, Md., company that provides onsite and Web-based monitoring of neurological systems for patients undergoing spinal and brain-related injuries, is denying any responsibility in a case involving the June 6 dumping of several boxes…
UK: Credit card fraudster hits 35,000 motorists in petrol station scam
Colin Fernandez reports: A computer wizard branded ‘the most prolific chip and pin fraudster in the UK’ was jailed yesterday for four years. Theogones De Montford, 29, stole the details of at least 35,000 motorists during a £725,000 scam targeting petrol stations. He designed tiny circuit boards which he fitted inside chip and pin machines…
Stolen laptop contained Inovis employee data
As part of a merger, Invois of Alpharetta, Georgia provided GXS with some information on the company. On May 4, a laptop containing Inovis employee data was stolen from a GXS employee. Inovis wasn’t notified of the loss until May 21, however. The firm conducted its own investigation and required GXS to conduct one, too….
Quantum theft nabs employee data
As snarky as I can be at times about breaches that seem easily avoidable, there are some breaches where I can actually feel some sympathy for the breached entity. This is one of those times. On June 13, the Bellevue, Washington offices of Quantum Corporation were burgled. The thieves stole some laptop computers, one of…
WA: 8,000 patient records stolen from Family Care Center on Whidbey; identity theft feared
Jeff Vanderford If you are, or have ever been, a patient at the Family Care Center physical therapy clinic, call your bank. Right away. That’s the advice of owner Jim Christensen, after discovering that more than 8,000 of his patients’ names had been stolen during a burglary last weekend. The list includes patient accounts from…