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Update on Sterne Agee Group laptop breach

Posted on May 26, 2015 by Dissent

Last July – and I missed this one at the time – Stan Diel reported; A laptop computer including some Sterne Agee Group Inc. clients’ account numbers, Social Security numbers and other personal information has been missing since the end of May and the firm has offered some customers free identity theft protection services as a result, a…

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Columbian Mutual Life Insurance Company reports lost flash drive

Posted on May 24, 2015 by Dissent

I really miss the days when NYS posted all the breach notifications it received online, but they still occasionally post breach alerts. This week, the NYS Department of Financial Services posted an alert concerning Columbian Mutual Life Insurance Company. In looking into it, I discovered that LocalSYR.com had reported the breach on April 21st: Columbian Mutual…

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UK: Welsh police force fined £160,000 for loss of DVDs with sex abuse victim interview

Posted on May 18, 2015 by Dissent

The ICO has hit South Wales Police with a £160,000 fine for losing a video recording which formed part of the evidence in a sexual abuse case. Three DVDs (one master and two copies) contained video of an August 2011 interview with a victim who had been sexually abused as a child. The victim’s face showed in the…

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SC: Roper St. Francis Hospital notifying 360 patients about lost flash drive (updated)

Posted on May 5, 2015 by Dissent

WCSC reports that 360 patients of Roper St. Francis Hospital will be getting a letter about a lost flash drive that contained what a hospital spokesperson described as “limited patient information.” The information may be “limited,” but it still is sensitive: names, ages, diagnoses, and dates of procedures. Hospital officials say a thorough search and investigation was conducted, and…

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MA: Life Care Center of Attleboro Notifies Former Patients and Employees of Missing Records

Posted on March 31, 2015 by Dissent

Patients at Life Care Center of Attleboro between 1992 and 2004, in 2006, or in 2011, may have been affected by a breach involving paper records. The breach involved storage vendor Iron Mountain,  who was unable to locate the records during a limited audit. Although neither Iron Mountain nor Life Care Center of Attleboro seem to suspect data…

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Let’s send an unencrypted thumb drive via mail. What can possibly go wrong, right?

Posted on March 30, 2015 by Dissent

No, Human Resource Advantage. You do not get to put an unencrypted thumb drive with employee records in the regular mail to TrustHCS and then claim you take the security of personal information in your control “very seriously.” From your own investigation, that drive contained names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, bank account information, postal…

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