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United Natural Foods warehouse with retired laptops and hard drives burglarized

Posted on January 14, 2014 by Dissent

Let’s never forget the importance of physical security. Attorneys for United Natural Foods Inc. (UNFI) report that in early October, UNFI was notified by police in Auburn, California that several old/retired laptops had been found in the possession of two homeless individuals on two occasions. UNFI’s investigation revealed that the laptops had last been located…

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Accretive Health Settles FTC Charges That It Failed to Adequately Protect Consumers’ Personal Information

Posted on December 31, 2013 by Dissent

From the FTC, a follow-up on a breach that was first disclosed in September 2011, and that I’ve covered a number of times on PHIprivacy.net (see these articles). Regular readers may recall that Accretive was also sued by Minnesota’s Attorney General.  That suit settled for $2.5 million in July 2012.  Accretive Health, Inc., a company that…

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Actelis Networks reports theft of safes with Human Resources files

Posted on December 31, 2013 by Dissent

Lawyers for Actelis Networks have notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of the theft of two safes containing some Human Resources files with personal information. In their notification dated December 13, they explain that two safes with password-protected files were stolen on December 7 or 8. The theft was reported to law enforcement. Files…

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Damned if you do, damned if you don’t?

Posted on December 30, 2013 by Dissent

Kevin G. Staker of StakerLaw Tax and Estate Planning Law Corporation is notifying clients that a backup drive with their Social Security numbers and assets information was stolen from his home in a burglary on December 20.  The irony of the backup drive being in his home in case there was an office fire was not…

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South Carolina Health Insurance Pool reports breach after laptop stolen from independent auditor’s car (Update1)

Posted on December 28, 2013 by Dissent

Just what South Carolina needed – another agency breach.  Chris Meller writes: …  the South Carolina Health Insurance Pool has begun notifying current and previous subscribers that their information has been leaked again. According to a letter dated December 18th a laptop owned by DeLoach & Williamson, an independent auditor contracted by SCHIP, was stolen from an employee’s car on October 16, 2013….

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Update on the Clark & Anderson, P.A. breach

Posted on December 21, 2013 by Dissent

On September 23, I reported on an unencrypted backup drive stolen from an accounting firm employee’s vehicle: A Maryland accounting firm had to notify 2,906 Maryland residents after an unencrypted backup drive was stolen from an employee’s car at his home. The theft occurred on August 4, but Clark & Anderson, P.A. didn’t learn of it…

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