So here’s yet another breach with what seems like a long delay to notification. In this case, Re-Solutions, a division of RSC Insurance Brokerage in Massachusetts, is a business associate to healthcare providers. On August 23, 2018, an employee’s laptop was stolen. In its disclosure letter, the laptop was described as “password-protected,” but there was…
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Stolen N.W.T. laptop was among dozens that were unencrypted and handed out to unsuspecting staff anyway
This is Part 3 of a 3-part series on a stolen laptop. If you missed the earlier parts, you can find them here: Part 1 and Part 2. Priscilla Hwang reports: The N.W.T. government’s information technology division knew a set of laptops were “very difficult” to encrypt, but still handed it out for government staff…
Licensed Producer under scrutiny for possible privacy breach of patient info
Emma Spears reports: Reports are surfacing that Canadian licensed producer RedeCan is facing a privacy breach after a mass email to patients revealed their personal information to other patients. Although officials from RedeCan have not commented publicly, an email from the LP to a patient impacted by the breach indicates the company has self-reported the…
UK: Gateshead Council data breaches share health and debt details
BBC reports: A council has admitted a series of data breaches, including uploading personal medical details to an online forum. Gateshead Council also sent letters containing private information to the wrong addresses and sent a debtor a list of other people who owed it money. The 19 breaches happened in the ten months after new…
MA: Emerson Hospital reports data breach
Robert Mills reports, in relevant part: Emerson Hospital is offering a two-year membership to an identity protection service to 6,300 patients whose personal information was part of a data breach caused by a third-party vendor last year. In a statement released Friday, the hospital said the data breach occurred between May 9 and May 17…
Oklahoma Heart Hospital notifies patients after thieves steal computers from clinic
KFOR-TV and K. Querry report that Oklahoma Heart Hospital is notifying 1,221 patients following a January burglary that resulted in the theft of four desktop computers from an outpatient clinic. The computers reportedly contained patient information like names, dates of birth, addresses, phone numbers and clinical information. Read more on KFOR-TV. NewsOfToday has additional details…