Another breach involving a transcription service. This time, it’s PinnacleHealth System in Pennsylvania, who recently reported an incident to HHS involving Gair Medical Transcription Services. On December 17, PinnacleHealth issued a press release that indicates that the breach may have occurred back in 2008, but was only detected when someone searching for something online stumbled across…
Category: Exposure
Update on White Rock Networks breach
Yesterday, I reported on a breach reported by WFAA in Texas, where boxes of intact personnel records, some containing Social Security Numbers and even medical information on employees, had been found next to a public dumpster in Plano. As Brad Watson of WFAA reported, White Rock Networks had gone bankrupt in 2006 and its assets were…
Sensitive Scottish court records discovered at recycling bank
A press release from the UK ICO: The Scottish Court Service breached the Data Protection Act by failing to take sufficient steps to prevent court documents containing sensitive personal details being accidentally disposed of at a local recycling bank in Glasgow, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The ICO was first made aware of…
TX: Personnel records found dumped outside Plano library
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…
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…