Stephanie Lee reports: Hard disks and laptops containing important political information were stolen from Parti Cinta Sabah’s head office at the Nountun Industrial Estate near here. PCS president Datuk Seri Wilfred Bumburing’s corporate officer [sic] located on the second floor of the same building was also broken into. Read more on The Star.
Category: Theft
Denton Heart Group notifies patients stolen hard drive held 7 years’ worth of PII/PHI
As seen on their site: Denton Heart Group (the “Clinic”), a member of HealthTexas Provider Network (HTPN) is committed to protecting the security and confidentiality of our patients’ information. Regrettably, this notice concerns an incident involving some of that information. On January 11, 2017, we learned that an external computer hard drive was stolen from…
Stolen personal information found at home of Turlock woman
ModBee reports: Turlock Police found stolen property belonging to dozens of victims when they conducted a probation search on Tuesday at the home of a woman who last month was arrested on suspicion of breaking into a mailbox. Detectives, along with Community Outreach Response and Engagement officers and Stanislaus County probation officers, searched the home of 33-year-old…
Data of 750 Patients Breached in Computer Theft at Sharp Healthcare
Cassia Pollock reports: The personal health information of more than 750 outpatients at Sharp Healthcare might have been compromised because of a computer theft, the San Diego-based medical care provider announced Friday. In a statement, Sharp said a computer and external storage device were discovered missing on Feb. 6 from a locked cabinet in an access-controlled patient…
Laptops stolen from UC-Santa Cruz instructor’s home contained students’ information
That this is still happening in 2017 is …. disheartening. From a notification being sent by the University of California – Santa Cruz: We are contacting you regarding an incident involving the theft of a laptop that contained your personal information. What Happened? On January 13, 2017, two unencrypted laptops were stolen from the home…
Ysleta Independent School District: Laptop containing high school students’ transcripts with SSN stolen in home burglary
Lindsey Anderson reports: Confidential information belonging to Hanks High School students might have been compromised after a laptop containing transcripts of every student at the school was stolen. A Hanks counselor downloaded and saved transcripts of all 1,700 students onto a personal laptop as part of her job, but the laptop and other items were stolen from…