A Milwaukee hospital is warning thousands of its patients that personal information about them may have been stolen. The theft happened at Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center on Milwaukee’s south side. More than 6,000 people, who were in-patients here at St. Luke’s will be getting a letter in the mail. It warns them that their…
Category: Theft
Update: BCBS of Tennessee to start sending notifications
John Commins updates us on the Tennessee BlueCross BlueShield breach: BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee is readying a Nov. 30 mass mailing to some of its 3.1 million customers in the Volunteer State who may have had their Social Security numbers and other private data compromised after an Oct. 2 hard drive theft at a remote…
Stolen Esai Inc. laptop had unencrypted employee data
FCI USA wasn’t the only firm notifying the New Hampshire Attorney General of a stolen laptop this week. By letter (pdf) dated November 16, attorneys for Eisai Inc. informed the state that a laptop was stolen from a Human Resources Department employee’s car in New Jersey on October 21. At least one file on the…
FCI USA notifies employees of stolen laptop
Lawyers for FCI USA have notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that a laptop stolen from an employee may have contained a spread sheet with unencrypted personal information including names, Social Security numbers, and dates of birth for approximately 2,000 current and former employees. By letter dated November 19, K. Catherine Roney of Morgan…
Follow-up: FBI looking at UMC records leak
Marshall Allen of the Las Vegas Sun reports: The FBI said Friday it may investigate a breach of patient privacy laws at University Medical Center, where hospital officials are reeling with the realization that at least one of their employees has leaked confidential names, birth dates and Social Security numbers. UMC officials spent Friday determining…
FL: Ten more indicted in Operation Felony Lane
Ten people have been indicted by a federal grand jury in West Palm Beach. The indictment, which was unsealed today, is the the ninth installment of “Operation Felony Lane,” an ongoing investigation aimed at systematically dismantling large identity theft rings operating in the tri-county area. Charged in today’s 21-count Indictment are defendants Janice Coachman, Latoya…