James Burton and Vanessa Allen report: Lloyds Bank chiefs are investigating if an insider plot to undermine Antonio Horta-Osorio was behind revelations that he allegedly spent a weekend with a mistress on a business trip to Singapore. There are fears that sources within the chief executive’s inner circle leaked embarrassing claims that the married father…
Category: Exposure
Bon Secours notifies 655,000 patients that vendor error exposed patient info on Internet
Bon Secours Health System, Inc. (“Bon Secours”) and its affiliates are committed to maintaining the privacy and security of our patient information. This notice is to inform our patients of an incident involving one of our vendor’s handling of some patients’ information. On June 14, 2016, Bon Secours discovered that files containing patient information inadvertently…
Walgreens avoids penalty after 9-year privacy breach investigation
I have been following this case from the beginning and wondering why the heck HHS didn’t come down on Walgreens like they did on their competitors CVS and RiteAid. And now we learn that OCR just closed the case with no penalty? Seriously? So CVS and RiteAid get clobbered by both the FTC and HHS/OCR, and Walgreens…….
Personal information for hundreds of people found along CLE roadside
NewsNet5 in Cleveland reports: The City of Cleveland is trying to determine who dumped the personal information of hundreds of northeast Ohio residents along the roadside on Train Avenue. The personal information was strewn along a mile stretch of roadway, at five different dumping sites, and included; tax returns, mortgage information, canceled checks, addresses, social…
UK: Domestic abuse privacy breach: Greater Manchester Police pays victim
BBC reports: A domestic abuse victim has received £75,000 from a police force after it revealed details of her treatment by a former boyfriend without her consent. The unnamed woman had agreed Greater Manchester Police (GMP) could refer to her experience in a training session providing she remained anonymous. However, she later learned her identity…
UK: Medical data leak: Doctors hit with £40,000 fine from UK watchdog
Jennifer Baker reports: A doctor’s surgery in Hertfordshire has been fined £40,000 by the UK’s privacy watchdog for giving out personal medical information in breach of data law. Regal Chambers gave information about a woman and her family to her estranged ex-partner, despite staff at the practice being warned that this might happen. Read more on…