Back in February, CBS News reported that dozens of Irving Independent School District employees had become victims of ID theft and that a former volunteer at the school, Sharon Seeley, had been charged in connection with the case. Now today, Katherine Leal Unmuth of the Dallas Morning News provides an update on this case. Apparently…
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NE: Bruning Warns Against Careless Disposal Of Records
Mike McKnight of WOWT in Nebraska reports that as a follow-up to their exposure of a breach that exposed personnel files on more than 20 former employees of Claire’s, Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning gave Claire’s Corporation a written notice that they needed to develop a policy to ensure records are properly destroyed and not…
Ca: City playing with personal information?
Richard Deschamps of radio station CJAD reports: If you’ve ever gotten a traffic ticket from the city of Montreal, there’s a good chance it, along with a lot of your personal information, might have wound up in a place where anyone looking to steal personal information might have had access to it. An investigation by…
VA: Medical records blowing in the wind
CBS 6 reports that hundreds of medical records from patients at Richmond Dermatology and Laser Specialists were blowing around a parking lot. The records included, “patient lists, insurance information, social security information, phone numbers and treatment records that included one patient being treated for the herpes STD.” So how did the medical office respond when…
First we threaten the reporters….?
Kristen Ross of KBTX has a 3-part series on improper disposal of medical records in paper format. Part 1 describes hundreds of medical records floating around a dumpster that included names, addresses, social security numbers and medicaid numbers. Those documents were from the Daniel Jarvis Home Health Agency. According to Ross, attorneys for the home…
IN: Goshen attorney dumps client files in the trash
Justin Leighty of The Elkhart Truth reports that confidential client files from attorney Joe Lehman’s office were just dumped in the trash. The files contained personal and financial information, and were disposed of during a move the office was making. What’s somewhat dumbfounding is that the attorney claimed he didn’t know that there was any…