P.F. Chang’s Bistro has notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that on December 19, equipment was stolen that contained some current and former employees’ Social Security numbers and other information such as date of birth. The disclosure does not indicate where the equipment was stolen, but does indicate that the equipment was password protected…
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Innotek reports breach
If this site had a “Vaguest Breach Report of the Month Award,” I think Innotek would have won it for January. For an example of a breach report that pretty much says absolutely nothing useful other than the number of New Hampshire residents to be notified, see Innotek’s notification to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s…
CA: Credit card scammer pleads guilty
Ronald Leon Marshall, 53, of Los Angeles, has pleaded guilty in federal court to four counts of using unauthorized credit cards to defraud Central Valley merchants and credit card companies, says U.S. Attorney Benjamin Wagner. Mr. Marshall admitted that for six weeks in 2008 he used stolen and otherwise unauthorized credit card numbers to buy…
UK: ATL agrees to improve information security after thousands of union members’ personal details are stolen
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has found the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) in breach of the Data Protection Act after a laptop and memory stick were reported lost or stolen, containing the personal details of over 6,000 union members. The laptop was the property of the ATL and contained the personal details of…
HIPAA complaints decreased significantly in 2009
The following is cross-posted from PHIprivacy.net: Dennis Melamed provides monthly HIPAA complaint statistics based reports by the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR). It seems that not only did breach reports in general decline in 2009 relative to 2008, but privacy and security complaints to HHS also declined. Melamed reports: OCR received 7,116 complaints in…
HIPAA complaints decreased significantly in 2009
Dennis Melamed provides monthly HIPAA complaint statistics based reports by the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR). It seems that not only did breach reports in general decline in 2009 relative to 2008, but privacy and security complaints to HHS also declined. Melamed reports: OCR received 7,116 complaints in 2009, a sharp decline from the…