Lisa Fernandez writes in the Mercury News: It’s mind-numbing what Eric Drew has been through. The former Los Gatos High School quarterback and runway model was diagnosed with leukemia seven years ago. A hospital lab technician stole his credit cards before he went into surgery. After that, credit card companies first blanketed him with cards…
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Hewlett employee accused of stealing credit card information
Jeff Lipton reports in Herald Community Newspapers: A 19-year-old cashier at a Hewlett (NY) pharmacy was arrested last week and charged with several counts of identity theft after she allegedly used a device to copy credit card information from customers which was then used to make more than $8,000 in illegal purchases, investigators said. The…
Ca: Kids' data exposed
Marc Kilching of Sun Media reports: Documents containing detailed information on children who participated in a city-funded summer program were carelessly left out in the open at a public housing apartment building where a man was recently charged with possession of child pornography. George Pappas, director of the Glamorgan Resident’s Association, was running one of…
Was LabCorp too casual when it suffered a breach?
As reported in the previous news story, two women discovered “thousands” of LabCorp patients’ records strewn all over a public road. A LabCorp spokesperson suggested that the records might be pre-1993 records which wouldn’t contain Social Security numbers, but of course, that totally misses the point about privacy, which is more than just the issue…
Women Find Thousands of Medical Records Scattered Across Road
Ryan O’Donnell of WOAI reports: Thousands of sensitive medical documents fell out of a truck bed and ended up scattered across the road for just about anyone to see and take. The box belonged to Labcorp, one of the world’s largest companies that analyzes blood work, and contained thousands of patient medical records. […] A…
Identity breach affects hospital
Another entity involved in the February smash-and-grab theft of a computer from Systematic Automation, Inc. has been identified: Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital. The stolen computer was recovered and the thief arrested. Airan Scruby writes in the Whittier Daily News: About 5,000 past and current employees at Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital had their private information stolen, officials said…