In a case that started in 2007 with medical records being burned on a farm, the Detroit Free Press reports: The Michigan Department of Community Health has settled a civil lawsuit against Southfield psychiatrist Dr. Soon Kim and Quality Health Plan Inc. for improperly disposing medical records from Greater Detroit Hospital in Detroit. Under the…
Category: Exposure
AU: Medical records scattered on Sydney street
From ABC News: New South Wales Police have confirmed that several boxes of sensitive documents containing records from a private nursing home were found on a street in inner Sydney. Police say the boxes of papers were located by a council clean-up crew but a Sydney taxi driver says he stopped to inspect the documents…
Hotmail Mobile back online after privacy glitch
From Silicon Republic: A technical glitch that allowed at least one Vodafone customer to view the private Hotmail account details of another user has been fixed following global downtime for the mobile webmail service. A spokesperson for Vodafone Ireland said the issue was brought to light after a customer contacted the company who subsequently removed…
Indiana agency sent 4,500 social security numbers to wrong companies
Eric Bradner of the Evansville & Courier Press reports that Indiana’s unemployment agency, the Department of Workforce Development, accidentally sent the social security numbers of 4,500 out-of-work Hoosiers to the wrong companies due to a printing error by Pitney Bowes Management Services. It was less than one week ago that the New Jersey Department of…
Texas attorney general charges four debt settlement companies with unlawful conduct — and a security breach
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is going after some debt-settlement companies for fraud. But the story reported by KTRE also includes charges concerning a security breach associated with one of the companies: Four Peaks [Financial] is accused of exposing its customers’ sensitive personal information, including name and credit card numbers, on its Web site. The…
IRS lax in destroying sensitive tax papers
From Reuters: Sensitive documents about U.S. taxpayers were found in trash outside all Internal Revenue Service sites visited in a investigation, putting the people at risk of identity theft, an inspector’s report says. The tax collection agency must bolster oversight of contractors who dispose of papers with personally identifiable information, the inspector general for tax…