Jordan Fischer reports: Hundreds of patients’ test results went missing last month from a Community Health Network office, the hospital network announced Friday. In February, the staff at Physician Network Practice, located in the 2000 block of North Shadeland Avenue, noticed a binder with results had disappeared. The binder contained more than 600 hemoglobin and…
Category: Lost or Missing
Ca: Office of Auditor General lost 120 encrypted USB drives: documents
Joanna Smith reports from Ottawa: An internal investigation at the Office of the Auditor General found that about 22 per cent of the encrypted USB drives entrusted to employees were lost, according to newly released documents. […] “The management of these USB drives was not strictly enforced. Employees were given IT Security information sessions on…
EMC data security fails the old fashioned way
David Chernicoff writes: I received an interesting letter in the mail yesterday from EMC Corporation. It seems that at some point in the last two months of 2014 they managed to lose control of my basic personal information, including my date of birth and Social Security number — giving the ability to whoever acquired the…
UK: Parole Board for England and Wales signs undertaking
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: An Undertaking to comply with the seventh data protection principle has been signed by The Parole Board after the potential loss of a prisoner’s parole dossier. Whilst there is a possibility that the dossier may have been securely destroyed in this case we do not consider that the Parole Board…
Amedisys notifies 6,909 patients after failure to locate 142 devices during inventory
On March 2nd, home health and hospice care provider Amedisys issued a press release that disclosed that during a risk management inventory of their devices, which commenced during the second half of 2014, they were unable to locate 142 encrypted computers and laptops. The devices had been assigned to Amedisys clinicians and other team members who left the company between 2011…
NCUA releases OIG report on Oct. Palm Springs FCU data breach
There’s a follow-up to a Palm Springs Federal Credit Union breach reported last year. The Credit Union National Association (CUNA) writes: The National Credit Union Administration’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has released a review regarding a data breach that occurred late last year. The agency confirmed that an external flash drive containing personal information for approximately…