MSNBC has a small item from NBCDFW.com that a Dallas man found a box full of medical records that included Social Security numbers in a parking lot after someone reportedly broke into a doctor’s storage unit. Neither the name of the doctor nor the name of the storage facility were indicated in the news story.
Category: Theft
UK: Council’s contractor reports laptop theft
Hayley Mace of EDP24 reports that the Suffolk Coastal District Council has suspended its work with a contractor, Lalpac, after a laptop containing unencrypted data on 3,000 was stolen from an employee’s home.
Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: Diane Michelle Nicholson, a former employee of the Holladay Park Plaza retirement care facility, is accused of stealing credit cards and checks from multiple elderly tenants and patients. Read more. Dr. Lisa Michelle Barden, the physician accused of stealing patients’ identities and faking other doctors’ signatures to obtain thousands of prescription…
University of West Georgia notifies students and faculty of data theft
The Associated Press is reporting that the University of West Georgia has notified nearly 1,300 students and faculty that their personal information was on a laptop that was stolen last summer. The laptop, which contained names, addresses, phone numbers and Social Security numbers, was in possession of a professor. The university says that it only…
Stolen computer at UT contains personal information of students, faculty
A computer stolen from the University of Toledo contained personal information for about 24,000 students and 450 faculty during the 2007-08 and 2008-09 academic years, the university announced Monday. […] The computer was password protected and many of the files were specifically encrypted or individually password protected, he said. The personal data was saved on…
Chicago Fire Department contractor’s laptop stolen (updated)
The Dezonia Group handles billing people for the Chicago Fire Department’s ambulance service. Dana Koslov of CBS in Chicago reports that the contractor reported that an employee’s laptop stolen six weeks ago contained the names, addresses, and Social Security numbers of thousands of people who used the ambulance service in the past two years. Update…