Records with personal and/or patient information continue to make news when they are left behind during moves. Just this week, we learned that Boyd Hospital left records behind during a move – records that may have legally become the property of an individual who bought the building from the county. While Boyd Hospital seemingly knew…
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Attorneys to argue jurisdiction in Shorter University security breach case
Northwest Georgia News has an update on a lawsuit that was filed in the wake of the theft of student records at Shorter University. The breach, disclosed in November 2014, allegedly resulted in ID theft and tax refund fraud, according to a lawsuit filed in February: The federal judge presiding over a civil lawsuit against Shorter…
IL: Boyd Hospital failed to remove stored patient records before building sold
Paging HHS to Aisle 4…. Samantha McDaniel-Ogletree reports: What started as a routine purchase of a surplus county building has resulted in the discovery of thousands of medical records and allegations of theft. Jerseyville resident Edward Crone bought the property at 505 S. Main St. from the county on March 19 — more than a…
FL: Personal information, FBI report left in scrapped cop car
NBC2 reports: In less than ten minutes searching through Lee County scrap yards we found W2’s, bank statements, check books, Social Security numbers, date of birth and medical records. […] During our search we found numerous arrest reports and witness statements sitting in a retired Cape Coral Police squad car inside a scrap yard…. We found…
NJ: Personal tax records found in Edison trash
Another case where records in a storage unit wind up in the wild when the owner falls behind on storage rent. News12 New Jersey reports: Hundreds of old tax documents with personal information on them were found left out in the trash Tuesday in Edison. The boxes, about 12 in all, were from Tax DRX,…
Ca: Police notifying hundreds of people about potential privacy breach
Reid Southwick reports: Calgary police are attempting to notify up to 400 people that their privacy may have been breached after five service-issued notepads were stolen from an off-duty officer’s vehicle. […] Police made no mention of the stolen notebooks until Monday, more than five weeks after the initial theft. […] The stolen notebooks could contain…