Kevin Niedermier reports: Cleveland police are still looking for the stolen car that contained personal information on 44 Greater Cleveland Food Bank clients. The car was stolen last month after a food bank worker had collected the written information on assistance applications. Food bank Communications Director Karen Pozna says so far none of the affected clients have…
Category: Theft
Thousands of medical records stolen from Zanesville practice
Kate Snyder reports: Thousands of patient files kept by Capital Prosthetic & Orthotic Center, Inc. were stolen from a storage locker in Zanesville in December. The information stolen, according to a release from Capital Prosthetic, may have included patients’ names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, medical diagnosis/treatments and insurance information. Across…
U. North Carolina: Patient’s dental records may have been stolen
UNC School of Dentistry is alerting some of its patients that their personal information may have gotten into the wrong hands. According to the school, this inadvertent disclosure happened after one of the school’s postgraduate dental residents car was broken into. The school sent a letter informing patients that their personal information was stored on…
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield Pays $1.1M For Customer Data Breach
Jerry DeMarco reports: Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey agreed to pay $1.1 million and improve data-security practices to settle charges that it failed to properly protect the privacy of nearly 690,000 state policyholders whose personal information was contained on two laptops stolen from the insurer’s Newark headquarters. The insurance giant — New…
Ph: Comelec faces probe for another possible data breach
Paterno Esmaquel II and Michael Bueza report: The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is facing an investigation for another possible data breach after one of its computers in the town of Wao, Lanao del Sur, was stolen. Comelec Chairman Andres Bautista confirmed to Rappler on Thursday, February 16, “Merong computer sa election office ng Wao, Lanao del…
MT: 20,000+ tribal members warned of data breach
The Miami Herald reports that 20,000 members of the Crow and Northern Cheyenne Tribes in Montana were notified that their personal information was on an unencrypted hard drive stolen from a Bureau of Indian Affairs law enforcement vehicle in Big Horn County. The unencrypted device contained names, addresses, birthdates and tribal enrollment information for members of the Crow…