Matt Lee reports: A GP surgery has admitted to a data breach after “confidential” information was blown into the local area whilst being obtained by waste collectors. Mount Chambers Surgery in Braintree says they have reported themselves to the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) over the breach. The GP surgery, on Coggeshall Road in Braintree, looks…
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Students will retake SATs after their completed exam sheets blow off UPS truck
Shelby Kapp reports: El Paso High School students’ SAT scores were compromised after they flew out of a UPS truck. The El Paso Independent School District says staff recovered all but 55 SAT sheets. “El Paso ISD is working closely with the College Board to determine a remedy for the El Paso High School students…
UK: Home Office warned after sensitive documents left at London venue
The ICO has issued a formal reprimand to the Home Office, after sensitive documents were found at a public London venue. The documents, which were handed by venue staff to police in September 2021, included two Extremism Analysis Unit Home Office reports and a Counter Terrorism Policing report. The reports contained personal data, including that of…
Concern as sensitive PSNI documents containing names and addresses of Loyal Order officials found by a member of the public on street
Mark Rainey reports: Sensitive police documents containing the names and addresses of loyal order officials in north Antrim and the north west have been found on the streets of Bushmills. The papers were discovered by a member of the public. According to Apprentice Boys of Derry (ABOD) general secretary Billy Moore, he was handed 16…
‘Crisis’ for Utah prisoners as medical records glitch scrambles prescription info
We don’t see many breach reports involving lost devices these days, but records can also be lost due to other causes, such as cyberattacks that encrypt or corrupt files or attacks that delete records where there is no backup. In this case, records were lost during a move to a new facility and transition to…
UK: Around 5,000 Dorset hospital patient images deleted
Andrew Goldman reports: Thousands of radiology images, including breast screenings, of Dorset patients have been accidentally deleted. University Hospitals Dorset (UHD) has insisted implications to patients are “very low” after the Echo discovered approximately 5,000 health images taken during a period in 2019 were wiped during a routine archive process. Images lost include 214 clinical…