The Department on Aging is investigating allegations a Topeka care facility put documents with personal information in a public recycling dumpster. The agency says Briarcliff Care Center, 3224 SW 29th St., reported the incident to them Friday morning. A person reported finding the documents Thursday night in a recycling dumpster at SE 29th and Adams….
Category: Breach Incidents
Palmetto General Hospital employee and accomplice sentenced for stealing patient records
Jacquettia L. Brown, 29, and Tear Renee Barbary, 25, both residents of Miami-Dade County, were both sentenced this week following their conviction on offenses relating to the theft of patient records from Palmetto General Hospital to further a fraud scheme. U.S. District Court Judge K. Michael Moore sentenced Brown to two years and five days…
Database bug at Woot leaves reader wary of ordering
Laura Northrup writes: Robear wanted to order from shirt.woot, but something strange happened when he went to register. After choosing a username and entering his e-mail address, he noticed that all of the forms were pre-populated with another customer’s information…including that user’s credit card information. He contacted Woot to try to find out what could…
KS: Pharmacy records recovered from downtown trash bin
Mark Fagan reports: The owner of the former Round Corner Pharmacy was scrambling Thursday night to recover hundreds of detailed customer records that had been thrown away during the building’s renovations. Tom Wilcox was notified Thursday evening that a desk drawer filled with prescription records from 2007 had been overturned in a roll-off trash container…
Easybakeware.com customers notified of security concern
When easybakeware.com customers started contacting the company to report unauthorized charges on their credit cards or debit cards from other merchants during the month of September, the Connecticut-based company instructed its Microsoft Gold Level e-commerce service provider/data center to investigate. They also hired an independent security consultant, but neither the consultant nor service provider reportedly…
Farmers bank account details lost by Rural Payments Agency
Caroline Stocks reports: Thousands of farmers’ bank account details have been lost by the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) after the Government body lost two back-up tapes of confidential data belonging to all English farmers. The RPA, which administers the single payment system of EU subsidy to English farmers, for the Department of Environment Food and…