David Smith reports: A Clinton Foundation laptop and a thumb drive used to archive Hillary Clinton’s emails from her time as secretary of state are missing, according to FBI notes released on Friday. Read more on The Guardian.
Category: Lost or Missing
The Outer Banks Hospital alerts former Eastern Carolina Cardiovascular patients of lost identity and medical info
Another entry for the “Why is this still happening in 2016?” collection. Think long and hard – and then think harder – about whether you should be using thumb drives to transfer unencrypted protected health information. Rob Morris reports: Personal data for patients over a period of 12 years might be at risk after two…
2 officials sacked for not reporting loss of birth records that could have exposed 1,500 Texans to ID theft
Robert T. Garrett reports: The state registrar of vital statistics and her top deputy have been fired for not disclosing several years ago that their office lost a book containing records of 500 Texas births in early 1993. The missing book — one of about 800 volumes of birth records that state workers assemble each year…
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences statement on missing patient records
So it appears that University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences had a breach back in January, but only this week (based on the notice’s metadata) posted something on their site about it: UAMS has been unable to notify approximately 15 patients regarding an incident that may have involved disclosure of their personal information. What happened?…
UK: Bungling contractors throw out 500 confidential documents in Newcastle CQC office refurb blunder
Helen Whitehouse reports: Confidential documents detailing the backgrounds of hundreds of people have gone missing following an office upgrade blunder. Bungling Contractors threw out a locked filing cabinet containing up to 500 Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) certificates for people who had applied to become registered managers and providers. The error, which happened during the…
UK ‘Serious Incident’: East Riding patients medical records lost by company paid to keep them safe
As reported in the Hull Daily Mail: Medical records for patients in the East Riding have been lost by a firm paid by health bosses to keep them safe in storage. East Riding Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) has launched an investigation after discovering paper records had gone missing. […] She said: “The storage company commissioned to…