KRGV in Texas reports that a citizen found files full of medical records from a home health care agency scattered on the street: Jose Diaz’s walk to the grocery store led him to files with names of people, their address, phone number and social security numbers. Most of documents are from late December. They’re medical…
Category: Lost or Missing
(NARA update) More potential victims of identity theft notified of hard-drive loss
Elise Castelli reports: The National Archives and Records Administration last month warned 150,000 more people who interacted with the Clinton administration that their personal information may be at risk after a hard drive was lost. The December letters were the second batch sent in connection with the March data loss. Previously, NARA mailed more than…
Nl: Rabobank loses customer data
Karin Spaink provides an English summary of some news reports that a Rabobank employee lost a USB drive containing personal and financial data on 3000 customers: An employee of the Rabobank lost his USB stick, which held the data of 3000 customers. Apart from the personal information of each of those customers, the stick contained…
Lost Textron Financial hard drive held employee, customer data
Textron Financial has notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that an external hard drive lost in mid-October contained personal information on 54 former and current employees as well as customers. According to a letter sent to affected clients this week, names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and account numbers relating to the purchase of time-share…
Health Net notifies New Hampshire that 504 residents affected
Health Net’s notification to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office is now available online (pdf). Dated November 23, the letter states that although the files on the lost portable hard drive were not encrypted as they should have been, because they were image-only format files of scanned documents, they would be difficult to view. The…
UK: Navy to investigate security breach
Henry McDonald reports: Royal Navy investigators flew to Belfast last week after a memory stick containing “restricted” information on naval manoeuvres and personnel around the UK was reported missing. The Observer has learnt that two senior detectives from the Royal Navy Police’s Special Investigation Branch met members of the Police Service of Northern Ireland to…