Courtney Perkes reports: St. Jude Heritage Medical Group in Fullerton has notified about 22,000 patients that their personal health and financial data might have been accessed after five computers were stolen. Heritage, which is affiliated with St. Jude Medical Center, sent letters about the theft last week, according to hospital spokeswoman Dru Ann Copping. The…
Category: Breach Types
Professor emails private student records by accident
Mike LaCount reports: On April 8, students in the UW-Milwaukee Geography department received an e-mail containing personal information of former UWM students, but the message was removed before most of the recipients opened it. Judith Kenny, associate professor and undergraduate program chair for the department of geography, sent an e-mail to 97 students in the…
Affinity Health Plan notifies over 409,000 of breach
Cross-posted from phiprivacy.net: On April 5, Affinity Health Plan issued a press release concerning a “potential security breach” of customer, provider, and staff personal information. According to the release, Affinity was informed on March 17 that an office copier leased previously by it and since returned to the leasing company might contain personal information on…
100 more breaches you probably never knew about in 2009
As noted here and elsewhere, the number of breaches reported in the media and other sources declined in 2009 relative to 2008, but newly obtained data suggests that once again, there was much that we did not know. During the period September 1 – December 31, 2009, 141 breach reports were received by the…
Personal Documents from DHEC Found in Recycling Bin
The Department of Health and Environmental Control has asked the SC Law Enforcement Division to look into allegations that DHEC documents were found in the City of Columbia public recycling bin located behind state agency office buildings on Bull Street. DHEC has recovered and secured the documents, and turned them over to SLED. SLED officials…
Shell employee contact data breach affects over 100,000
The following was posted by John Donavan and attributed to Royal Dutch Shell (“Shell”) Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer Richard Wiseman: Colleagues, I am writing to inform you of an incident involving misuse of company data. It has become clear recently that the Global Address List, containing contact information of everyone in Shell and some…