Rod Walton reports: Online banking bandits pulled thousands of dollars from the accounts of current and former SemGroup LP employees after personal information was inadvertently left on a bankruptcy court document made public last summer. SemGroup officials said, however, that as far as they are aware, all the money was returned to the accounts and…
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CO: 150 missing hospital patient records found
All 150 patient records missing for three months from Saint Joseph Hospital and Lutheran Medical Center have been found, according to Exempla Healthcare and FedEx. The documents had been lost by FedEx while being shipped between two third-party groups doing compliance and audit checks to make sure Exempla Healthcare meets complex Medicare requirements. FedEx spokesman…
CO: ‘Anti-Gym’ Personal Records Found In Dumpster
Rick Sallinger reports: Personal information on clients of a now-shuttered Denver gym has turned up in a very public place. Two weeks ago the Internal Revenue Service shut down the “Anti-Gym” for non-payment of payroll taxes. Somehow many of the gym’s records turned up outside in the trash. … There was information about gay relationships,…
OH: Thief Steals Patient Records; Hospital Investigates
Donna Willis reports: Nearly two dozen medical records were stolen from a doctor’s car. Parents questioned why the records were taken from the hospital in the first place. NBC 4’s Lauren Diedrich GOT ANSWERS. Diedrich went to Nationwide Children’s Hospital to find out how the incident happened, and the hospital said it was working to…
Purdue U. mailing error exposes 1099 forms of temporary employees
Purdue University reported a breach that occurred in January on Feb.3 on their site: A potential problem involving 1099 forms may affect individuals or organizations who were employed on a temporary basis by Purdue University in 2008. Due to a mailing error, some of these forms were inadvertently sent to the wrong individual or organization….
MA: City fines man for dumping tax forms
Laura Crimaldi and Frank Quaratiello report: City inspectors in Boston have fined a Norwood man $2,500 after finding “thousands” of tax documents containing sensitive personal information in a Dumpster behind a dollar store in Hyde Park. Employees at a Family Dollar store at 1248 River St. discovered the unshredded tax documents yesterday when they attempted…