South Central Los Angeles Regional Center notified consumers after an employee’s iPad containing names and UCIs (Unique Customer Identification?) had been left in a vehicle that was stolen on July 6. According to their web site, SCLARC is a private, non-profit, community based organization which contracts with the State Department of Developmental Services (DDS) to coordinate…
Category: Miscellaneous
WA: Friends In Service to Humanity (FISH) food bank computer stolen during working hours
Andy Matarrese reports: An almost-new computer was stolen from the FISH food bank on Water Street on Tuesday afternoon, according to staff. Roger McCune, the food bank’s executive director, said staff members and volunteers were downstairs with two or three families who were getting food when the computer was taken from the building’s offices upstairs…
Slow learning curve, Sunday edition
Some breach types are so well-known and easy to prevent that it’s hard to understand why they keep occurring. In December, the National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA) – International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) sent out its generic summary of benefits coverage to Family Medical Care Plan enrollees. No individual-specific medical information or details were included,…
MS: Head Start records containing personal information stolen from Moss Point office
April Havens reports: Residents’ personal information could be in jeopardy after someone took Head Start records from Jackson County Civic Action Committee Inc.’s Jefferson Street facility in Moss Point. Spokeswoman Hannah Donegan sent out a news release today saying the theft occurred between April and April 24, and a police report has been filed in…
Nuix and EDRM republish Enron data set cleansed of more than 10,000 items containing private, health and financial information
A follow-up to an issue recently raised by BeyondRecognition.net and discussed on this blog. SAN FRANCISCO, CA – May 15, 2013 — Nuix, a worldwide provider of information management technologies, and EDRM, the leading standards organization for the eDiscovery and information governance market, have today republished the EDRM Enron PST Data Set after cleansing it of private,…
TN: Mayor’s donation check among records found in dumpster
Andy Wise reports: The director of an adult literacy charity is trying to figure out how the personal information of former associates and donors, including Memphis Mayor AC Wharton, were piled up inside the charity’s dumpster. “It absolutely should not have happened,” said Kevin Dean, executive director of Literacy Mid-South, based in Cooper-Young. “It was…