Dan Christensen reports: For the second time in three years, a data breach at Broward Health has caused the release of personal patient information in what one district executive called “a ring of thugs.” Broward Health disclosed the breach on its website last month, saying it was advised by “law enforcement authorities” on May 12…
Category: Paper
Popular Texas restaurant under fire after dumpster discovery
Alex Achten reports: It was a startling surprise for neighbors who found papers containing social security numbers, bank accounts, and other personal information blowing across their yards over the weekend. We did some digging, and found out the papers came from inside a dumpster at a popular nearby restaurant. Frances Roberts lives across the street…
Medical marijuana patients’ personal information found in trash pile
Fox10 reports: A medical marijuana dispensary is conducting an investigation into how sensitive patient information ended up in a pile of trash on a public sidewalk. The man who found the medical records believes this is a breach of patient privacy. The documents weren’t shredded and were laying out in the open. Somehow, trash from…
SG: Fined for leaking 8,000 people’s personal data
K.C. Vijayan A printing firm hired by an insurance company sent erroneous account statements to policyholders that resulted in more than 8,000 people having their personal data leaked. The data breach by Toh-Shi Printing Singapore was its second such infringement and it was fined $25,000 last month by the Personal Data Protection Commission Singapore (PDPC)…
Boxes of patient information missing from Florida Hospital in Orlando
WFTV reports: Boxes of patient information from Florida Hospital are missing, hospital officials said Friday. A hospital representative said some boxes were misplaced while moving boxes of patient files from one storage unit to another. In a release, the hospital said, “While transferring boxes from our storage vendor, Access, to another one of our storage…
Syrian refugees’ data stolen from council worker day before Clydebank arrival
Tristan Stewart-Robinson reports on a small-N breach with potentially huge consequences for those affected: A list of the names of Syrian refugees and their new addresses in Clydebank was stolen one day before they were moved to the town, The Post can reveal. Some of the most vulnerable families in the world, fleeing the ravages of war, could…