Brad Watson reports about dozens of boxes containing sensitive information: “I picked up a notebook that was sitting on top, I flipped it over and saw pages and pages of Social Security numbers,” she said. “I got concerned.” Inside the cartons, News 8 reviewed hundreds of names, Social Security numbers, medical records, home addresses and…
Category: Exposure
Blue Cross Blue Shield Applications Found in Trash
Robert Siciliano writes: Private investigator William Cobra Staubs, was doing some dumpster diving conducting some “research” this week and happened upon a big box of discarded medical files and applications tossed there by what appears to be a Blue Cross Blue Shield agent who didn’t need them any longer. He found over 30 documents and…
Mailing glitch exposes CHS patron SSNs
After Minnesota-based CHS Inc. mailed PATR-1099 forms to its patrons in mid-November, they received a call from one recipient alerting them that both the name and Social Security Number was visible through the window in unhyphenated form. After investigating, CHS determined that SSN were exposed in at least some cases. In a letter to the…
CO: Medical marijuana records found near Dumpster (update 2)
Christina Dickinson and Dave Delozier report: It was the last thing Harold Morton expected to find while taking some recyclables out to the alley behind his home. When he walked past a Dumpster, he saw it in a cardboard box: a thick blue binder. “I picked the book up and I opened it and right…
(follow-up) Ca: Defence confirms breach of medical information of Forces personnel
Alison Auld of The Canadian Press provides an update to a breach previously mentioned on this blog: Defence officials are reviewing the medical records of several Forces personnel after an investigation showed their personal health information was mistakenly placed in a veteran’s military medical file. Maj. Cindy Tessier said the file belonging to navy veteran Wayne…
(update) JP: MPD admits antiterror data leak
Japan has had a number of embarrassing data breaches involving the Winny file-sharing program. Will this turn out to be another one? The Metropolitan Police Department on Friday effectively admitted that some of its internal documents on investigations into international terrorism were leaked onto the Internet in late October. […] The MPD has been questioning…