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Sensitive info may be compromised after City of Houston employee’s laptop stolen

Posted on February 24, 2018 by Dissent

KHOU reports: Information about City of Houston employees’ health insurance may have been compromised after an employee’s laptop computer was stolen. City officials say the laptop was stolen from the employee’s car on Feb. 2. They say the password-protected computer may have contained city employees’ records, including names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers…

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Records of pain device patients on stolen Nevro laptops

Posted on February 1, 2018 by Dissent

Nevro Corporation in California provides what they call HF10 therapy devices for patients coping with chronic pain.  After several laptops with patient data were stolen during an office burglary, they had to notify patients that their information was on the unencrypted devices: name, street address, birth date, procedure date, medical device identifiers (such as serial number),…

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NM: Dr. Zachary E. Adkins DDS, LLC notifies patients of stolen hard drive

Posted on January 25, 2018 by Dissent

Dr. Zachary E. Adkins DDS (“Dr. Adkins”) of Albuquerque New Mexico has advised its patients of a privacy event that may have compromised certain personal information. The events are the result of criminal activity. On November 30, 2017, a laptop bag containing an external hard drive from Dr. Adkins’ office was stolen. The hard drive…

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Computer discovered stolen from Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge

Posted on January 17, 2018 by Dissent

Jennifer Johnson reports: Park Ridge police are investigating how a computer belonging to Advocate Lutheran General Hospital ended up in the possession of a man claiming to reside in the Philippines, authorities said. The desktop computer was reported stolen Jan. 8 after a man reportedly contacted the hospital to say he bought a computer that…

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The Coca-Cola Breach and Who’s on Hook for Security of Employee Data

Posted on January 13, 2018 by Dissent

Chris Opfer writes: Six years after Shane Enslin left his repairman job at a Coca-Cola distribution plant in Pennsylvania, the company told him that his Social Security number and other personal information might have fallen into the wrong hands. A few months later, a declined credit card upended his family vacation. Then came a third…

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Montana State University Billings notifying students after laptop was stolen in November

Posted on January 12, 2018 by Dissent

Ugh. Another laptop was apparently stolen from an employee’s car. This one was from the education sector, but it contained some student health information and health insurance information. The incident was reported by Montana State University Billings to the Montana Attorney General’s Office on January 5, and letters are going out today to affected students….

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