Bryan Anderson reports: Lane County Health and Human Services announced the loss of 49 boxes containing patient and client information Tuesday night. The boxes contained 566 Community Health Centers of Lane County patient medical information files and 149 Lane County Developmental Disabilities client files. Those files included medical histories, addresses, contact information and social security…
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After Strava, Polar is Revealing the Homes of Soldiers and Spies
Foeke Postma reveals the disastrous situation: Polar, a fitness app, is revealing the homes and lives of people exercising in secretive locations, such as intelligence agencies, military bases and airfields, nuclear weapons storage sites, and embassies around the world, a joint investigation of Bellingcat and Dutch journalism platform De Correspondent reveals. In January Nathan Ruser discovered that…
FBI: Man arrested at Rochester tanning salon stole photos, passwords from 150 victims
WHAM reports: A Rochester man previously charged with recording a woman at a tanning salon in Rochester without her permission may have stolen personal information and photos from as many as 150 victims, according to an FBI investigation. On December 7, 2016, investigators with the Rochester Police Department said a woman at the Zoom Tan…
UK: Data leak fears raised over dumped Portsmouth City Council computers ‘that may have not been wiped’
Fiona Callingham reports: Portsmouth City Council could face hefty fines under General Data Protection Regulations after it was discovered that for the past two years contractors have not been obliged to erase data when removing old computer drives. Auditors revealed the discrepancy in a report that was discussed at today’s governance and audit and standards…
UPDATED: Dignity Health units disclose breaches in Arizona, Nevada, and California affecting more than 60,000 patients
Last month, Dignity Health reported breaches to HHS that involved three of their hospitals in Nevada: Dignity Health St. Rose Dominican Hospitals – San Martin (1764 patients); Dignity Health St. Rose Dominican Hospitals – Siena (2078 patients), and Dignity Health St. Rose Dominican Hospitals-DeLima (2174 patients). The incident involved the hospitals providing documentation to an unnamed local…
License, ID data lost in crash: System failure affects 66,500 Hawaii residents
Max Dible reports: Marquis ID Systems, which issues state driver’s licenses and ID cards, reported Thursday that a system crash in September resulted in the loss of scans of sensitive personal documents that might prove irretrievable. The “multiple hard disk crash,” as Marquis described it, coincided with a failure of the company’s backup system and…