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Louisiana State University notifying 5,500 former and current students after laptop stolen from employee’s car

Posted on December 16, 2017 by Dissent

So it’s the end of 2017 but we’re still hearing about laptops being stolen from locked cars and that the devices were password-protected?  If the U.S. Education Department started cracking down in terms of enforcement, might it make any difference? Asking for a friend, of course….. KTBS reports: LSU is mailing letters to approximately 5,500…

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Washington Health System Greene notifies 4,145 patients after hard drive with PHI was discovered stolen

Posted on December 14, 2017 by Dissent

From a notification WHS-Greene posted on their web site: It is with regret that we inform you that Washington Health System Greene recently experienced a security breach when an external hard drive for the Bone Densitometry machine, that contained patient information, was determined to be missing from our Radiology department. We discovered the external hard…

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Franciscan Physician Network of Illinois and Specialty Physicians of Illinois notify patients of payment records lost or stolen from storage facility

Posted on December 13, 2017 by Dissent

Their press release: December 12 – Franciscan Physician Network of Illinois (FPN Illinois) and  Specialty Physicians of Illinois, LLC (formerly known as Wellgroup Health Partners, LLC, “SPI”) are notifying patients of a privacy breach. On November 21, 2017, it was confirmed that a limited number of boxes that contained 22,000 patient payment records could not be located…

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Hard disk mysteriously stolen after DU compiled attendance of law students

Posted on December 13, 2017 by Dissent

Prawesh Lama reports: A computer’s hard disk along with its CPU was stolen from Law Faculty in Delhi University on December 3 — the day officials started compiling the attendance of faculty members and that of over 7,000 law students. The law faculty’s dean, Ved Kumari, in her complaint alleged that the stolen CPU contained…

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Cape Cod students affected by Medicaid billing vendor’s data breach

Posted on December 9, 2017 by Dissent

Cynthia McCormick reports on the resolution of  a lawsuit stemming from a laptop theft in 2014. The breach was previously  reported on this site: Hundreds of Cape Cod students — many with special needs — were put at risk of identity fraud and theft when a laptop was stolen from an employee of a billing…

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24,000 UNC Health Care patients affected by potential security breach

Posted on December 8, 2017 by Dissent

John Murawski reports: UNC Health Care is notifying 24,000 patients about a potential security breach at a UNC dermatology practice in Burlington. UNC said Friday that personal patient information was contained on a hard drive of a laptop computer that was stolen from UNC Dermatology & Skin Cancer Center in October. The absence of the…

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