The Southwestern Indiana Regional Council on Aging, Inc. (SWIRCA) is in the process of notifying 757 clients of a breach of their protected personal information due to the theft of a case manager’s laptop computer from SWIRCA’s offices. The theft occurred sometime between 4:30 p.m. on Nov. 4 when the case manager last used the…
Category: Health Data
Five newly revealed breaches on HHS's web site
With its most recent update, the HHS breach tool site added nine breach reports. We knew about some of them already (the Oklahoma City VA incident, the Triple-Salud breach in Puerto Rico that had been reported by the Puerto Rico Dept. of Health, and the University of Tennessee Medical Center incident), but some of them…
Ie: Details of 500,000 GAA members compromised
The GAA [Gaelic Athletic Association – Dissent] has confirmed that the personal details of over 500,000 members have been compromised following a data breach. Servasport, which maintains the GAA database, revealed that there had been ‘unauthorised access’ to its database. The database contains the names and addresses of 501,786 members. Details include 288,511 dates of birth, 107,212…
AHS medical records of 2,700 children stolen with laptop: Privacy boss
Don Braid reports on a number of recently revealed breaches in Alberta, Canada: The medical records of 2,700 children were stolen with a laptop computer belonging to a researcher with access to Alberta Health Services files, Information and Privacy Commissioner Frank Work revealed today. The researcher has reported the loss to only 46 of the…
Alberta’s Privacy Commissioner shocked over digital devices (updated)
A rash of theft and loss of digital devices has Alberta’s Information and Privacy Commissioner scratching his head. In the past month, there have been seven self reported breaches of personal information, each involving a stolen or lost laptop or digital device. Two of those are government computers and personal information is at risk. Frank…
VA data breach statistics for 4th Quarter 2010
Some summary numbers from the Department of Veterans Affairs Quarterly Notice to Congress on Data Breaches for the 4th Quarter 2010: Overall, there were 5,090 notification of data loss letters mailed or pending mailing and 1,552 notification of credit protection letters mailed or pending mailing for the quarter. The bigger incidents that occurred during the…