Oregon Health & Science University is contacting 1,000 patients after a physician’s laptop was stolen from a car parked at the doctor’s Washington County home. Patient names, treatment dates, short medical treatment summaries and medical record numbers were stored on the computer, said OHSU spokesman Jim Newman in a news release. The computer was password-protected…
Category: Education Sector
IA: Potential Information Breach at Kirkwood Community College
Kirkwood Community College has issued an alert to around 16-hundred people because of a potential data breach. Officials say earlier this month, someone took a storage device from a counselor’s office in Iowa City. That device contained names and social security numbers for participants in the PROMISE JOBS program. Read more on KCRG News. Update:…
OH: Dining Services faces security debacle
Everdeen Mason of Ohio State University’s student paper, The Lantern, reports: It’s been a rough end of the term for Ohio State Dining Services. The director of Dining Services, Thomas Stevenson, has resigned from his position, and 350 student employees had their social security numbers accidentally leaked in an e-mail. “There is absolutely no connection…
Almost 40000 VCU students notified of breach
Karin Kapsidelis of the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that 17,214 current and former students at Virginia Commonwealth University are being notified that a computer containing their Social Security numbers was stolen from a secured area of the Cabell Library in mid-April. An additional 22,500 students are being notified that their names and test scores may have…
NV: Data leak raises questions
The Rebel Yell reports that letters were sent to about 20 students at University of Nevada – Las Vegas College of Sciences after the college discovered a virus had affected one of its computers. The college reportedly found that no data had been leaked. The story does not indicate what types of personal information were…
IL: Confidential CPS Documents Found Dumped in Alley
Erin Mendez and Sean Leidigh of WGNTV report: Years of CPS [Chicago Public Schools] student’s confidential, sealed records somehow made their way to a Lakeview alley early this morning. “I came upon my dumpster, totally filled. See this box? Sped –special education records..Lakeview,” said Art Kuesel, who found the documents behind his home. Inside, he…