Tony Collins reports: An NHS trust at the forefront of work on the £12.7bn NHS IT scheme has called in police after a breach of smartcard security compromised the confidentiality of hundreds of electronic records. Patients in Hull have expressed their dismay that an unauthorised NHS employee has accessed their confidential records; and the local…
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Cops find laptop with 13,000 BNP members names on it
Tom McTague reports: Blundering BNP bosses lost a laptop with the names of all 13,000 party members. A former employee at the BNP HQ and call centre in Northern Ireland was owed unpaid wages and she claims hard-up bosses gave her the computer in lieu of payment, forgetting that it held the entire membership list….
Personal data of Cal Poly Pomona applicants inadvertently put online
The Social Security numbers, home addresses and phone contacts for at least 300 students who applied for admission to Cal Poly Pomona six years ago were unintentionally disclosed online, the university said today. The applicants were notified this week and urged to contact credit-reporting agencies, school official said. The personal information, which did not include…
EFI victims’ bank account numbers released
Karen Velie reports: In the age of rampant identity theft, San Luis Obispo County officials, in a recent mailing to Estate Financial Inc. (EFI) victims, deliberately placed some investor bank account numbers on the outside of envelopes they mailed to the victims through their financial institutions. “My bank called me and said that they had…
Data breach could affect 60,000 GIs, civilians
Jim Tice reports: The Corps of Engineers is investigating the recent loss of an external hard drive that could pose identify theft problems for as many as 60,000 soldiers and Army civilians. Maj. Mark Young, a Corps of Engineers spokesman in Washington, said the security breach occurred in the command’s Southwestern Division, which is headquartered…
IN: Boxes of medical files found abandoned
Tom Moor reports: An agent with the Indiana attorney general’s office removed 21 boxes of medical records from a downtown office building Friday that contain the personal information of hundreds of local people. The boxes, consisting of thousands of sheets of paper, contain patients’ Social Security numbers, addresses, phone numbers, diagnoses and prescriptions. […] Although…