It must be headache-inducing enough to investigate one security breach. To discover a second breach while investigating the first, well, pass the Prozac. On August 8 , lawyers for Ohio-headquartered Thirty-One Gifts, LLC notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that while investigating how administrative credentials had been misappropriated and used to transfer some consultants’…
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Mount Sinai Medical Center reports two stolen laptops contained Social Security Numbers and diagnoses
Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, notified HHS of a laptop theft on June 7th involving PHI on 712 patients. The hospital posted a public notice on its site on July 11th: Public Notice July 11, 2011 NEW YORK, NY – July 11, 2011 /Press Release/ –– Mount Sinai Multispecialty Physicians Practice announced today that two…
University of Missouri Health Care breach involved 1,288 patients’ payment billing information
University of Missouri Health Care recently notified HHS of a breach involving the records on 1,288 patients. According to a news release on their web site issued June 21: University of Missouri Health Care and the University of Missouri Police Department are investigating a missing package containing patient billing information. On June 14, University of Missouri Health Care officials failed…
Anonymous Hackers Release FBI Contractor’s Drone Data
Alastair Stevenson reports: The hacker collective Anonymous has released a fresh batch of data taken from Vanguard Defense Industries, a Pentagon and FBI contractor. […] Anonymous later said the e-mails belong to the contractor’s senior vice president, Richard T. Garcia, and contained information regarding “internal meeting notes and contracts, schematics, non-disclosure agreements, personal information about…
Business owners report theft of computer data: University Heights Police Blotter
The co-owners of Chocolate Emporium, at the Cedar-Green Plaza, reported the theft of computer data by a former employee Aug. 8. The owners said the suspect, a Silsby Road man, 24, was hired to work there Jan. 31, and they had hoped to retire and sell the business to him. He was shown a computer…
Some Iowa inmates could have seen guards’ data
KGAN in Iowa reports: Starting a new program for inmates at an Iowa correctional facility could turn out to be a horrible deal for prison employees. Personal information about the guards may have made to the inmates. An unwanted letter in Saturday’s mail has Steve Gray worried about identity theft. “Name and social security number…