Catherine Shanahan reports: Documents with sensitive patient data identifying children and adults, details of surgical procedures, and reasons for missing appointments have been found on a busy city-centre street in Cork. The highly personalised information relating to patients attending Cork University Hospital (CUH) for plastic surgery was discovered by Luke Field, a Labour Party local…
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Hong Kong gov’t dental clinic loses personal information of nearly 400 patients
Holmes Chan reports: A government-run dental clinic has lost an appointment book that contains the personal information of about 383 patients. The Department of Health revealed the incident on Thursday, saying that the Li Po Chun Dental Clinic in Tai Kok Tsui had lost information related to bookings made from January to June 2015. The…
In the process of notifying patients of a web exposure breach, Inmediata experiences a mail exposure breach?!
Reading the comments under the Inmediata press release is like watching a train wreck happen right in front of you. Many people are reporting that they have received multiple notification letters from Inmediata — many with the names of people who are unknown to them and who do not live at their address. One person…
In: Files feared stolen from GST Intel records room
Wow. As far as a physical security FAIL goes, this is a contender. The Ahmedabad Mirror reports: Officials of the Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) in Gujarat on Sunday lodged a complaint of theft of record files from their storage unit in Ahmedabad. The DGGI storage unit is housed in an old and decrepit…
Saratov: medical documents with personal data of patients found at landfill
Saw this item on CrimeRussia under High Profile Cases. I’m not sure why they call this a high profile case, but it seems like sensitive info is sensitive info no matter what country you live in, and having papers with medical info floating around is just not acceptable in Russia, either. The Regional Prosecutor’s Office…
Ca: Shredding company denies responsibility for incident involving Grand Villa Casino cards
Aaron Hinks reports an update to an incident that does not appear to have been covered on this blog. So why am I including the update? Well, partly because it sounds like something did happen that left personal information unshredded, but also because it sounds like the earlier reporting may have impugned a firm’s reputation and…