(Note: a patwarkhana seems to be a property registration office) Miscreants broke into the Jhuneer patwarkhana and tore records. They also broke open the room of patwari Ashok Kumar and stole documents late last night. […] As per details, the records, which were stolen, also included an assessment register, which contained the compensation record of…
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IE: Potential data security breach at NTMA
BreakingNews.ie reports: The National Treasury Management Agency has notified the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner of a potential data security breach. A spokesman for the NTMA says the incident occurred yesterday as State Claims Agency records were being removed from the NTMA premises for archiving by the NTMA’s off-site document storage provider. During the…
Hawai‘i Medical Service Association notifying members after mailing error exposed protected health information
The Hawai‘i Medical Service Association (HMSA) is notifying about 10,800 members that it mistakenly sent care management letters to incorrect addresses. The misrouted letters did NOT contain financial information, Social Security numbers, HMSA membership numbers, birth dates, claims information, or medical histories. The letters did include member names and steps they could take to identify…
Ca: RBC sends wrong RRSP info, including names and SINs, to ‘approximately 500’ customers
Pete Evans reports: The biggest bank in Canada says it accidentally mailed hundreds of incorrect RRSP receipts to the wrong customers, exposing the names, addresses and social insurance numbers of those clients in the process. Royal Bank of Canada says that as a result of what it called a “printing error” a number of its…
Documents with Social Security numbers found in Albuquerque dumpster
KOAT reports: It’s tax season, and that means a lot of sensitive information is getting printed on a lot of pieces of paper. Action 7 News found some of that paper just lying in an Albuquerque dumpster. “I’m the one that put the stuff in there,” said Frank Shannon. “It’s 10 years old.” That stuff…
OH: Community Mercy Health Partners notifies patients after vendor improperly discarded patient records (UPDATED)
There’s an update to the update below. The incident was reported to HHS as impacting Community 113,528 patients’ records. Original post: There’s an update to a breach reported previously on this site. From a statement on their site: Community Mercy Health Partners (CMHP) and its hospitals, Springfield Regional Medical Center and Mercy Memorial Hospital, are committed…