By Lisa A. Davis and Neil Johnson report: On Sunday morning, Karen and Scott Keith made their monthly stop at the Land O’ Lakes Recycling center to drop off household recycling items. When they looked at the paper bin it was not only full to the point of pushing up the lid, it was practically…
Category: Health Data
FL: Medical, credit files found in dumpster
Steve Gehlbach reports: They were tossed out with the trash. Dozens of boxes filled with personal records turned up Sunday night in an Orlando dumpster. […] Orlando Police are investigating where the documents came from and what, if any, crime was committed. Police say it was a cleaning man who put the old records in…
FL: Thousands of personal record files dumped in recycling bin
By Lisa A. Davis and Neil Johnson report: On Sunday morning, Karen and Scott Keith made their monthly stop at the Land O’ Lakes Recycling center to drop off household recycling items. When they looked at the paper bin it was not only full to the point of pushing up the lid, it was practically…
South Shore Hospital Breach Could Affect 800,000
South Shore Hospital today reported that back-up computer files containing personal, health and financial information may have been lost by a professional data management company. The hospital had engaged the company to destroy the files because they were in a format the hospital no longer uses. The hospital has no evidence that information on the…
South Shore Hospital Breach Could Affect 800,000
South Shore Hospital today reported that back-up computer files containing personal, health and financial information may have been lost by a professional data management company. The hospital had engaged the company to destroy the files because they were in a format the hospital no longer uses. The hospital has no evidence that information on the…
(follow-up) TN: BlueCross completes analysis of data theft
Emily Bregel reports: BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee has wrapped up its assessment of customer data that was stolen in an October 2009 robbery of its abandoned Eastgate Town Center office. The state’s largest health insurer has concluded that nearly 1 million BlueCross members were affected by the theft, the same number stated in an earlier…