The Daily Mail reports: A council has lost a memory stick containing home security codes and medical information for thousands of elderly people.The data device holds the medical details on 4,000 people looked after by Leicester City Council support service as well as 2,000 key codes which can be used to gain access to their…
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OR: Up To 75 VA Patient ID Cards Missing
KPTV reports: Dozens of patients at the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center could be at risk for identity theft after their identity cards were lost. Medical center staff say 50 to 75 patient ID cards were lost in late January. The cards were being held by the hospital after they had been returned due to…
Yet another Health Net breach raises disturbing questions
More is starting to come out about the Health Net breach involving missing server drives that we first learned of earlier today in a press release from CT’s Attorney General. His press release was followed by a press release from Health Net. Now a few more details have emerged: Kathy Robertson of the Sacramento Business…
Hard drive containing personal information of some Western Michigan University students and faculty missing
Gabrielle Russon reports: A backup hard drive containing names and social security numbers of several hundred current and former students and faculty members is missing, Western Michigan University spokeswoman Cheryl Roland said Tuesday. The hard drive, which contained a WMU department’s academic records, was first noticed missing from an office desk on Jan. 25. Roland…
Mass. General to pay $1M to settle privacy claims
Massachusetts General Hospital and its physicians organization have agreed to pay the federal government $1,000,000 to settle claims related to a worker leaving personal health documents on the subway. The hospital also agreed to develop a comprehensive new privacy policy to prevent patient information from being compromised in the future, and to provide training to…
UK: Council breached Data Protection Act by losing flash drive with unencrypted information
Cambridgeshire County Council breached the Data Protection Act by losing a memory stick containing sensitive data relating to vulnerable adults, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The ICO was informed by the council in November 2010 that an employee had recently lost an unencrypted memory stick containing personal data relating to a minimum of…