Courtney Perkes reports: St. Jude Heritage Medical Group in Fullerton has notified about 22,000 patients that their personal health and financial data might have been accessed after five computers were stolen. Heritage, which is affiliated with St. Jude Medical Center, sent letters about the theft last week, according to hospital spokeswoman Dru Ann Copping. The…
Category: Breach Incidents
Beatrice Community Hospital and Health Center notifies HHS of breach
Another breach newly revealed on OCR’s web site: Beatrice Community Hospital and Health Center State: Nebraska Business Associate Involved: McKesson Information Solutions, LLC Approx. # of Individuals Affected: 660 Date of Breach: 3/19/10 Type of Breach: Other Location of Breached Information: Paper Records As of the time of this posting, neither entity has any notice…
Ca: ‘I have her stuff. Who has mine?’
Candice Mac Lean reports: When Vicki Hill opened a large, brown envelope stuffed with financial documents last week, she expected it was the student loan information she requested from CIBC weeks earlier. Vicki Hill ended up getting someone else’s documents containing personal financial information, but some of her documents she requested weren’t delivered. Instead, among…
RI: Computer glitch causes big headaches
Susan Hogan reports: An Attleboro businessman thought he hit the jackpot, his company’s 401k plan doubled in value in just months. Not only had his 401k doubled in size, so did the amount of employees he supposedly had working for him. The company he hired to handle his payroll and 401k plan, had somehow sent…
Users’ passwords exposed by Splunk
Oops — I meant to post this a few days ago, but just discovered it still sitting in the drafts folder… Gavin Clarke reports: Splunk, a kind of Google for business technology that boasts it can help re-enforce your security, has exposed the accounts of major customers to hackers following a web site slip up….
Montana Tech Takes Precautionary Measures Following Email Release Of Personal Data
From their announcement: Montana Tech of the University of Montana administrators are notifying students and alumni whose personal information was released in an e-mail message sent out to the Montana Tech campus community late last week. On April 22, 2010, an email message containing sensitive personal information such as name, social security number, address, phone…