Associated Press reports: The personal information of 508 Illinois nursing home residents was inside a stolen briefcase, prompting the state agency overseeing Medicaid to notify the people affected by the breach. The Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services announced the incident Friday. A statement from the department says the briefcase was stolen Aug. 31 from the…
Category: Theft
Ca: Calgary Board of Education hit by new privacy breach as laptop containing 2,000 report cards stolen
Richard Cuthbertson reports that the Calgary Board of Education has had a second breach this month. I had missed the first one, I think. This latest one happened October 5th after an employee left a laptop containing the report cards of more than 2,000 students in a car. The laptop was stolen. Kindergarten to Grade 9…
UK: Greater Manchester Police force pays £120,000 penalty following data breach last year
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: An ICO investigation into a data breach at Greater Manchester Police has concluded with the force being fined for failing to take appropriate measures against the loss of personal data. The action was prompted by the theft of a memory stick containing sensitive personal data from an officer’s home. The…
NJ: Credit card info of more than 100 customers stolen from North Bergen car transport business
Anthony J. Machcinski reports: …. Owners of AutoCarry, a car transport business that has an office on 4250 West Side Avenue, reported that burglars broke into the office and stole the records of more than 100 customers Wednesday night, police said. Owners told police that the stolen documents contained credit card numbers, addresses and other…
FEI Company joins the ranks of those who had PII on a stolen laptop
FEI Company has notified employees that a laptop stolen on August 29 contained their personal information. In a letter from their counsel to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, the firm indicates that the laptop held employees’ names, Social Security numbers, taxpayer I.D. information, salary information, date of birth, home address, and basic employment information….
Ca: Bar and lounge workers warned of potential privacy breach (update1)
Jana G. Pruden reports: Hundreds of employees of the Oil City Hospitality Group are being warned that personal information such as social insurance numbers and birth dates has been “accessed and possibly compromised” after a break-in at the company’s head office this summer. The group owns a number of popular bars and lounges in Edmonton,…