Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Trust has pledged to improve data security after it informed the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) of a data breach involving the loss or theft of three unencrypted USB sticks containing sensitive patient information. Each of the devices contained the full treatment and full diagnosis history relating to a number…
Category: Theft
CA: Enloe ambulance patients’ info stolen from storage bin
Greg Welter reports: Paperwork containing patient information is missing from a shredding bin at an Enloe Medical Center facility, apparently taken before it could be destroyed. Laura Hennum, public relations director for the medical center, said the missing paperwork documented ambulance runs made by Enloe approximately between Oct. 8 and 12. The theft was discovered…
TN: Roane State announces 11,000 employee and student Social Security numbers stolen from employee’s car
WBIR reports: Roane State Community College has announced that the names and Social Security numbers of 9,747 current or former students were on a data storage device stolen from an employee’s vehicle, along with 1,194 current/former employees’ information. The Social Security numbers alone, with no names, were also stolen for 5,036 additional current or former…
CA: Computers, personal info stolen from church
Betsy Lambert reports: Thieves made off with computers full of personal information last week when they burglarized the Lutheran Church of Prayer on Panorama Drive. Databases with employee and congregational information were in the stolen computers. Since the theft, Lutjens said at least one church employee’s home has been burglarized and another employee’s financial accounts…
ID theft ring traced to stolen MVD document
KOAT reports a breach out of New Mexico: About a month ago, Target 7 reported that Rod White, of Los Ranchos, was indicted on charges of fraud, forgery and identity theft. White tried to pass off fake checks using the state Taxation and Revenue Department’s account number. Officials knew little then, but APD detectives said…
Retail sales associates sentenced for role in credit card, bank fraud
Four men from Atlanta Georgia were sentenced this week by United States District Judge Orinda D. Evans on charges of bank fraud, credit card fraud and aggravated identity theft. “In this case two sales associates who worked for retail establishments assisted others in committing credit card fraud,” said Acting United States Attorney Sally Quillian Yates….