It must be headache-inducing enough to investigate one security breach. To discover a second breach while investigating the first, well, pass the Prozac. On August 8 , lawyers for Ohio-headquartered Thirty-One Gifts, LLC notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that while investigating how administrative credentials had been misappropriated and used to transfer some consultants’…
Category: Theft
Mount Sinai Medical Center reports two stolen laptops contained Social Security Numbers and diagnoses
Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, notified HHS of a laptop theft on June 7th involving PHI on 712 patients. The hospital posted a public notice on its site on July 11th: Public Notice July 11, 2011 NEW YORK, NY – July 11, 2011 /Press Release/ –– Mount Sinai Multispecialty Physicians Practice announced today that two…
UK: Children’s details stolen in playground raid
The personal details of around 1,000 children have been snatched by thieves who stole a computer from inside an adventure playground. Burglars broke into Bennetts End Adventure Playground in Hemel Hempstead over the weekend. As well as a computer, £850 was taken from a safe inside the council-run adventure playground’s office. Read more on Hemel…
HI: Missing Files From Locked Storage Prompt Alert
Catherine Cruz reports: University of Hawaii officials are warning that confidential financial information of close to 2,000 people is unaccounted for. The documents were in three file boxes kept in a secured area on the Diamond Head campus. “It’s scary because someone could be using your credit card and you wouldn’t know,” said Sepe Albert,…
HK: OFTA computer with personal data stolen
The Office of the Telecommunications Authority says a notebook computer belonging to a member of staff, which contains the personal data of more than 500 people, has been stolen. It said information stored in the computer includes personal details of OFTA’s Emergency Response System team and representatives of other government departments. OFTA has apologised to…
Update: UNC-Chapel Hill Police arrest suspect in theft of student records
There’s been an arrest in the case of the recent break in at a University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill office where 30 students’ records held by the Honor Court were stolen. NewsObserver.com reports: Garrett Lee Haywood, 22, of Chapel Hill, was arrested today on charges of breaking-and-entering, larceny and possession of stolen goods. Haywood was…