Fangzhou Liu, Hannah Knowles and Ada Statler report on a breach that has nightmarish qualities to it: very sensitive information exposed, but you can’t figure out for how long and you can’t determine who, if anyone, accessed it? Ugh….. Stanford is in the process of notifying some 200 people — a mix of employees and…
Category: Breach Incidents
More details emerge on AZ Board of Education student data breach
More details have emerged on a breach first noted on this site last month. Jim Small of the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting (AZCIR) reports that the breach occurred after AZCIR filed a public records request for records of appeals filed by students over letter grades issued by the state Board of Education. On Oct….
Baylor College of Medicine notifies former applicants after data from 2016 breach found on publicly available web site
Baylor College of Medicine is sending notification letters to an unspecified number of former applicants. In the letter, Randy Langenderfer, Vice President, Chief Compliance and Audit Officer writes that they first became aware of a possible database breach in October, 2016. In November 2016, those affected were notified of the compromise. Now Langenderfer writes: In late…
Kansas agency’s data restored after ransomware attack
Greg Mast reports: East Central Kansas Area Agency on Aging was the victim of a computer breach earlier this fall. The breach at ECKAAA, 117 S. Main, Ottawa, occurred Sept. 5. Files containing names, address, telephone number, birthdate, social security number and/or Medicaid number were encrypted by ransomware, which means the agency could not “open…
Patient information lost, found in bag on McGalliard
Keith Roysdon reports: A bag of patient information was lost for several days and recovered along McGalliard Road in Muncie, IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital has announced. The bag contained billing paperwork for about 1,399 patients, according to the hospital, which is part of the IU Health network. The bag was lost around Sept. 23…
Staunton medical practice reports patient data breach after employee wrong-doing
Gabe Cavallaro reports: Valley Family Medicine (VFM) in Staunton announced Friday that there was a breach of protected health information for some of its patients in mid-July. Two employees printed and misused a mailing list of 8,450 patient names and addresses. One of those employees then used that list to make postcard notifications informing certain…