A number of medical records – which are still kept in paper form in Jersey – went missing in the hospital in August, the Health Minster has confirmed. Read more on Jersey Evening Post. It’s not clear to me how being short-staffed led to missing records. Did existing staff just fail to return records after…
Category: Lost or Missing
City of Dallas calls IT protocols ‘inadequate’ in 131-page report on police data loss
Ryan Osborne reports: Dallas’ city information technology department sent a 131-page report to city council on Thursday, detailing the massive data loss involving police records earlier this year and attributing the issue to “inadequate” protocols among IT staff. The report confirmed that 22 terabytes of data, involving more than 8 million records, were deleted in…
Trial blocked by police data loss; murder suspect released
AP reports a follow-up to a data loss incident reported earlier this month: A murder suspect was released from jail Monday after his trial was postponed when Dallas police revealed they had lost a massive amount of criminal data. Read more on AP.
Case Files Affected in Dallas Police Department Data Loss
Claire Cardona reports: Multiple terabytes of Dallas Police Department data are missing and may be unrecoverable after being deleted during a data migration process in April, according to the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office. District Attorney John Creuzot said in a disclosure notice to defense attorneys Wednesday that the city had learned in April that…
Morgan Stanley asks court to throw out data security lawsuit
Ryan W. Neal reports: Morgan Stanley has asked a New York federal court to throw out a class action lawsuit alleging the firm failed to properly wipe sensitive client information from decommissioned computer equipment that has since gone missing. The former clients cannot plausibly identify instances of personal data being accessed or misused, or any…
GA: Hundreds of peoples’ medical records from Hope Medical found along a road
Justin Gray reports: Medical records for hundreds of patients were found dumped along the side of a road in South Fulton County. Channel 2 Action News has learned that those records contained everything from Social Security numbers to private medical information. Channel 2 investigative reporter Justin Gray tracked down where the records came from. Hope Medical told…