Jim Kasuba reports: It’s common knowledge that documents with personal information should be destroyed after no longer needed in order to lessen chances of identity theft. In most cases they’re put through a shredder. That wasn’t the case recently when a man using the Wyandotte Recycling Center, 1170 Grove, came upon documents that raised all…
Category: Paper
Update on Community Mercy Health Partners breach
Ben Sutherly reports a follow-up on the Community Mercy Health Partners breach reported previously on this blog. Sutherly reports that the actual number of patients potentially affected was far less than the 113,000 reported to HHS because of duplication. And as a result of the breach, Community Mercy no longer contracts with the vendor, he said. The vendor…
IN: 40 people notified after tax documents found in dumpster
Following up on the station’s earlier report, Paris Lewbel reports: Nearly 40 people have been notified by the Indiana Attorney General’s Office after their tax documents were found in a dumpster. Many of the people were not Indiana residents. […] The Indiana Attorney General also sent a letter to the nearby tax preparer to find…
Ca: Fraction of those affected by breach identified
Joel Wittnebel has a follow-up on a breach involving the City of Oshawa: Despite extensive efforts, only four of the 18 individuals affected by a December 2015 privacy breach in the city’s printing services department have been identified. On Dec, 1 it was discovered that a series of pre-authorized tax payment (PAP) notices had been double-stuffed…
That Radiology Regional Center vendor’s breach potentially affected almost half a million patients
When Radiology Regional Center in Florida disclosed that paper records had been lost or fallen off the truck of its vendor, Lee County Solid Waste Division, they reported that they believed that they had retrieved all the records, but they were notifying all potentially affected individuals: Radiology Regional Center has advised potentially impacted patients to (1) place a…
FL: Radiology Regional Center Notifies Patients After Paper Records Fell Out of Vendor’s Truck
Radiology Regional Center, PA, a physician-owned and managed diagnostic facility with nine locations in Florida, announced today that on December 19, 2015, Radiology Regional Center was informed by its records disposal vender (sic), Lee County Solid Waste Division (“Lee County”), that, on that same date, paper records containing the personal information of Radiology Regional Center’s…