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SSNs of All Laredo ISD Students Missing In Data Breach; Trustee says not “a big deal”

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Dissent

Morgan Smith reports: A disk holding the Social Security numbers of every student in the Laredo Independent School District — a total of 24,903 — has gone missing, according to the Texas Education Agency. TEA spokeswoman Suzanne Marchman said the agency first became aware of the situation in January, when officials with the University of…

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UK: Security scare as council loses memory stick containing medical info and access codes to the homes of thousands of vulnerable people

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Dissent

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

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Dissent

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…

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Yet another Health Net breach raises disturbing questions

Posted on March 14, 2011 by Dissent

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…

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Hard drive containing personal information of some Western Michigan University students and faculty missing

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Dissent

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…

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Mass. General to pay $1M to settle privacy claims

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Dissent

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…

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