Liz Nelson reports: Naval Hospital Pensacola will be notifying thousands of beneficiaries who use its pharmacy services, following the disappearance of a laptop computer August 18 which contains personally identifiable information. The computer’s database contains a registry of 38,000 pharmacy service customers’ names, Social Security numbers and dates of birth on all patients that used…
Category: Lost or Missing
Vendor data on encrypted tapes falls off truck – UPDATED
A box with encrypted tapes containing personal data fell off a truck… Cuyahoga County officials are searching for a box that fell off a truck and contained personal information for 300 people. The box was being moved Monday to a storage facility and held information, including Social Security numbers, for private vendors who provide services…
Update: Home Office admits full extent of USB data loss
The Home Office has had to dramatically revise its estimates of the amount of data contained on a memory stick lost by third-party contractor PA Consulting last year. The department’s newly released Resource Accounts for 2008-09 (PDF) say that the USB device containing Police National Computer and prisoner data actually held 377,000 records, 250,000 more…
London Borough of Sutton will improve security in wake of breaches
London Borough of Sutton has agreed to take action to comply with data security requirements and has signed an Undertaking to assure the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) that personal data will be kept securely in future. The ICO has found London Borough of Sutton in breach of the Data Protection Act after several data security…
Laptop with loan data missing in Weber County
The Weber County Sheriff’s Office is concerned about a missing laptop from a loan officer that contains sensitive and personal information of hundreds of home owners in Utah. Deputies said the [Sun Valley Mortgage] loan officer accidently (sic) left his computer on a sidewalk instead of putting it in his car, a mistake that may…
Imperial breaches the DPA
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has become the latest NHS organisation to be required to sign an undertaking not to breach the Data Protection Act by the Information Commissioner’s Office. The undertaking says six laptops were stolen in two burglaries at St Mary’s Hospital, one of which was unencrypted even though it held patient…