Leanne Suter reports: Documents containing the personal information of veterans seeking treatment at the Veterans Affairs Long Beach Hospital may have been improperly disposed, Veterans Affairs officials said. Army veteran and hospital patient Paulnhu Nguyen said he found a large stack of patient records containing personal information, such as social security numbers, date of births…
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CA: Hundreds Of Dental Records Found In Vacant Building
Christine O’Donnell reports that hundreds of dental records with patients’ addresses, insurance information, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and drivers license numbers were found in what appears to be a vacant building in Orange. Of concern, the building has broken windows and homeless people have been observed going in and out of it for a while…
Equifax discloses data breach due to technical error during software change
Credit reporting giant Equifax is notifying some consumers that some of their personal information may have erroneously been sent to other individuals due to a technical error during a software change. Equifax discovered the problem on March 15, and notes that they attempted to call all recipients of the inadvertent disclosures to recover the files…
FL: Hundreds of files with personal information left in Lee County dumpster
Adam Wright reports that more than a dozen boxes of files containing Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, and credit card information were found in a dumpster behind a warehouse in Lee County. Schaefer says the files in the boxes belong to the company Coral Palm Auto Sales in Fort Myers. The business in question…
MD: Mailing error exposes 350 patients’ bills to other patients
Here’s one you won’t see on HHS’s public breach tool, because it’s less than 500 patients. Harford Surgical Associates in Bel Air, Maryland notified the Maryland Attorney General’s Office that due to a mailing error on October 16, 2014, patients received up to three other patients’ billing statements. The statements included the patients’ names, addresses, telephone…
Documents with Social Security numbers found in south St. Louis dumpster
Dan Greenwald reports: A south St. Louis resident was in alley picking up trash when he discovered a dumpster overflowing with documents containing personal information. […] All of the files were marked with Doran Reality, a company in south St. Louis County that Forbes did business with nearly 20 minutes (sic) ago. Read more on KMOV….