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Stolen SilverPop laptop results in notifications

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Dissent

The name “SilverPop” may not seem familiar to some readers of this blog, but if you also read DataBreaches.net, you’ll recognize it as the name of an e-mail marketing service that got hacked a while back.  As a consequence, a number of its clients wound up having to notify their customers that their email addresses had been…

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ID: Pocatello Family Medicine responds to cyber security concern

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Dissent

Yet another incident where a firewall was disabled during maintenance and never restored. And although that’s bad enough, it’s a concern that it took 9 months to spot the problem. Where are the regular routine checks on security or don’t they include checking the firewall? Officials with Pocatello Family Medicine have sent letters notifying patients…

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CA: Peninsula hospital reports medical records theft

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Dissent

Yet another hospital employee apparently walked out with records. Erin Allday reports: A mailroom employee at Mills-Peninsula Medical Center in Burlingame took home medical documents for roughly 1,500 patients over a nearly year-long period, the health care system announced today. Most of the records contained patient names and diagnostic test results, and 15 of the…

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UK: Repeated failure to protect privacy of records results in an undertaking for Kirklees Metropolitan Council

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Dissent

When I saw that the Information Commissioner’s Office had required Kirklees Metropolitan Council to sign an undertaking following a breach, the name sounded familiar. But it turns out that it was not the stolen computer breach mentioned on DataBreaches.net two weeks ago, but an earlier breach that occurred in July 2010. From the undertaking: The…

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NZ: Medical notes sent in error

Posted on July 31, 2011 by Dissent

Amy Glass reports: John Ritchie just wants his fax machine to stop invading your privacy. Ritchie, 89, of Merivale, has been mistakenly receiving confidential medical records via his home fax machine since the middle of last year. The former University of Canterbury professor of music estimates he has received between 50 to 100 records from…

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Nyack Hospital employees warned after sensitive data stolen

Posted on July 30, 2011 by Dissent

Jane Lerner reports: Former and current Nyack Hospital employees, as well as their spouses and children, are at risk of identity theft because a computer hard drive containing personal information was stolen from the hospital, officials said. Sensitive data, including names, addresses, dates of birth and Social Security numbers, were stored on a hard drive…

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