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The West Virginia Attorney General’s Office statement on CAMC breach

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Dissent

West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw today announced actions by his office and the Charleston Area Medical Center (CAMC) to secure the private information of 3655 patients affected by a data breach on a website set up for CAMC. The breach occurred within the research subsidiary of CAMC – the CAMC Health Education Research Institute…

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Contractor error exposed Charleston Area Medical Center’s Research Institute patient data on web

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Dissent

Statement by Charleston Area Medical Center: We wanted to let you know about a security incident that occurred at Charleston Area Medical Center’s Research Institute, which involved the personal information of some of our patients. On February 8, 2011, we learned that one of our databases containing information about 3655 patients had security vulnerability. The…

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BC Lotteries online site has fixed privacy glitches, report finds

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Dissent

Chad Skelton reports the follow-up on a breach previously covered on this blog: BC Lotteries did not take adequate steps to protect privacy when it launched its PlayNow.com online gambling site last summer, according to an investigation by B.C. Information and Privacy Commissioner Elizabeth Denham. However, Denham concludes BCLC has since taken steps to address…

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OH: Envelopes Display Workers’ Social Security Numbers

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Dissent

A mass mailing has made some very private information public. More than 8,000 state child-care providers have had their social security numbers accidentally exposed, 10TV’s Glenn McEntyre reported on Monday. The providers received letters from Affiliated Computer Services, which is a subsidiary of Xerox.  The company was hired by the state of Ohio to manage…

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Bank of America website exposes customer accounts, data

Posted on February 13, 2011 by Dissent

Ray Wert reports on Jalopnik that Bank of America’s online banking system experienced a security breach or glitch that enabled logged in users to see other people’s accounts: Someone very close to me called moments ago and told me that when she logged into her Bank of America account earlier this evening she saw, rather…

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UK: Around 10,000 CRB background checks land in the wrong inbox

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Dissent

Gwent Police is taking remedial action after the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) found it in breach of the Data Protection Act for accidentally emailing results of Criminal Reference Bureau (CRB) checks performed by the force to a member of the public. An email containing a spreadsheet of the results of around 10,000 CRB enquiries was…

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