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UK: Man finds confidential police reports in the road

Posted on December 30, 2018 by Dissent

Robert Sutcliffe reports: The Information Commissioner is investigating after a cache of confidential police information was discovered by a member of the public in Holmfirth. West Yorkshire Police say they are also looking into the circumstances of how around 50 items were found flapping around on the morning of Saturday, December 22. […] “I began…

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MA: McLean Hospital to Implement New Security and Training Programs After Data Breach Exposed Sensitive Health Information

Posted on December 20, 2018 by Dissent

There’s a follow-up to a 2015 breach that was previously reported on this blog.  Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey made the announcement yesterday: BOSTON — McLean Hospital Corporation will implement new security and training programs and pay a total of $75,000 to resolve claims that it exposed the personal and health information of more than 1,500 people, Attorney General Maura Healey announced today.  According…

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SG: Potential data breach after travel agency employee loses hard disk

Posted on December 19, 2018 by Dissent

David Sun reports: The authorities are investigating a potential data breach after a travel agency employee lost a hard disk containing personal details of clients. The employee of Insight Vacations had taken the disk out of the office without authorisation and lost it in a taxi on the way home. The disk, which has not…

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IE: University at centre of potential data breach after USB stick ‘goes missing’

Posted on November 19, 2018 by Dissent

Rachel Farrell reports: A leading university has experienced a potential data breach after a USB stick containing “confidential” details of up to 900 students went missing. NUI Galway, with a student population of over 18,000, confirmed in a statement on their website that the USB may have contained student names, their student numbers and exam…

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Boots cover up breach of confidentiality; over 400 lost ‘prescriptions’ from its Chaddesden store

Posted on October 23, 2018 by Dissent

Russell Pollard reports: Around 400 people who picked up their prescribed medication from the Boots store on St Mark’s Road in Chaddesden, in early September, should be concerned, and should be asking some serious questions of Boots. The original versions of their ‘prescriptions’ were lost from the store – the whereabouts of their personal data…

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Still sending data via unencrypted thumb drives in the mail? It will cost you.

Posted on October 16, 2018 by Dissent

Weibrecht Law in New Hampshire recently submitted a notification to their state with this explanation of their breach: On or about Monday September 10th, our office sent an unencrypted electronic copy (“thumb drive”) of a client file via US Postal Service. The envelope that the thumb drive was sent in was received by the recipient,…

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