Peter Gardiner of The Daily reports that cardboard boxes of personal details containing identification records and financial statements of LJ Hooker Noosa real estate clients were found at Noosa’s main refuse tip. The former owner of the business insists, however, that he had had taken the necessary precautions to have the records properly recycled when…
Category: Exposure
UK: Patients’ GP notes found in car
Shaun Lowthorpe reports that medical notes about 37 terminally ill patients were found abandoned in a used car owned by Philip Smith, a GP at the Beccles Medical Centre. NHS Yarmouth and Waveney is now investigating.
NY: Box delivered to Sun office leads to investigation
Grant Parpan of the North Shore Sun reports: A cardboard box filled with records from a Holbrook social worker’s office — including Social Security and bank account numbers, addresses and phone numbers of clients — was delivered to The North Shore Sun last week by a town worker who said he found it lying on…
AU: Patients’ medical records leaked online by pathology lab Sullivan Nicolaides
Anna Caldwell and David Earley report: An alarming privacy breach by one of Queensland’s biggest pathology labs has released patient medical histories on the internet. The names, contact numbers and private details of at least 100 patients, and potentially hundreds more, were plastered on the website of Brisbane-based Sullivan Nicolaides. Read more on news.com.au Update…
Hancock Fabric employee payroll records found in trash
WAFF 48 staff reports that employee payroll data for Hancock Fabrics in Huntsville Alabama was found dumped in the trash behind the business. The payroll records, which go back to 2005, contained social security numbers, pay rates, and first and last names. The company says that the records were improperly disposed of in error.
Maryland’s federal court leaks personal info on web (update 1)
An error by the federal court in Maryland resulted in medical information being accessible on the web for about two weeks. Not much info was provided by WMDT, and it’s not clear why medical information would have been included in what sounds like warrants on 226 people that got publicly shared, but 42 SSN were…