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TX: Documents with Personal Information Inside Dumpster, Thursday Edition

Posted on February 2, 2017 by Dissent

A dumpster diver in Harlingen, Texas hit pay dirt: “Social Security numbers, birthdays, home addresses, home telephone numbers, you name it,” he said.   Channel 5 News tracked the documents back to Harlingen Texas Motors, which closed last year.  But wait…. it’s probably not what you’re guessing. Read on: We spoke to the owner of the business. He…

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Payroll service mistakenly ships packages with W-2 records to wrong address — twice

Posted on January 28, 2017 by Dissent

It’s worrying that once again, criminals are successfully tricking employees into emailing employees’ W-2 data to them. But how about when a company just mails out W-2’s to the wrong address – and not once, but twice? The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that Paychex, a payroll service,  has twice shipped scores of confidential salary records and other documents to…

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Ca: Break-in prompts hospital to assess possible patient privacy breach

Posted on January 26, 2017 by Dissent

George Mathewson and Troy Shantz report: Bluewater Health has contacted the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario about a potential breach of confidential patient information stemming from a break-in at the former Sarnia General Hospital site. […] On Jan. 18, Sarnia Police reported a 30-year-old woman had been arrested after allegedly exiting a taxi and leaving behind…

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TriHealth notifies 1,126 patients after software glitch sends statements to old addresses

Posted on January 21, 2017 by Dissent

TriHealth in Cincinnati has issued the following notice about a mailing error that resulted in communications – including billing statements –  being sent to patients’ previous addresses rather than their current addresses. The error was attributed to a “software glitch.” January 20, 2017 In late November of 2016, TriHealth discovered a software glitch inadvertently replaced the…

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Five breaches involving health data disclosed in one day?

Posted on January 20, 2017 by Dissent

Breaches involving health data in 2017 are continuing where 2016 left off – there are too many of them. In addition to the breaches reported earlier today on this site involving Catholic Charities of Baltimore  and Complete Wellness (also in Baltimore), we also learned about three other breaches involving health data: The Center for Mental Health in Montana…

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Customer records from used car dealership found dumped in Detroit’s Brightmoor area

Posted on January 3, 2017 by Dissent

If you were a customer of Get Fresh Auto in Detroit, you may want to read a report by Randy Wimbley for Fox2.  Contacted after a watchdog found customer information just dumped on a debris-littered street, the used car dealership’s owner’s  responses to the reporter’s questions about how the papers wound up there reminded me of Sgt. Schultz in Hogan’s Heroes. “As soon…

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