Ed Monk reports: Tesco Bank has lost the personal details of dozens of customers, leaving them exposed to the risk of fraud, after staff sent unprotected personal data in the post. It is thought the customers affected were already in angry dispute with Tesco Bank over charges for controversial payment protection insurance on Tesco credit…
Category: Lost or Missing
The plot thickens….
Steve Adams reports: A Pennsylvania company hired by South Shore Hospital to dispose of patient records outsourced the work to a second company, contributing to delays announcing the disappearance of 800,000 patients’ files. Phoenixville, Pa.-based Archive Data Solutions was notified in early May by the outside vendor that 800,000 individuals’ records removed from the hospital…
(update 2) South Shore Hospital contractor named
Although not named in South Shore Hospital’s press release about a lost shipment of back-up files slated for destruction, the data management firm was named in the hospital’s report to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. It’s Iron Mountain Data Products (but see correspondence below from Iron Mountain that it was not them…
Another entity named in Mercer breach
Add Idaho Power to the list of those affected by the Mercer breach previously reported on this site.
St. Luke’s notifies employees that lost computer tape contains their personal information
Note: this incident is related to a breach previously reported on DataBreaches.net. Katy Moeller reports: St. Luke’s Health System has notified several thousand hospital employees in Boise, Wood River and Twin Falls that a computer back-up tape containing some of their personal information went missing in an office move. St. Luke’s spokesman Ken Dey said…
South Shore Hospital Breach Could Affect 800,000
South Shore Hospital today reported that back-up computer files containing personal, health and financial information may have been lost by a professional data management company. The hospital had engaged the company to destroy the files because they were in a format the hospital no longer uses. The hospital has no evidence that information on the…