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…
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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….
UK: Urgent investigation into breach of benefit claimants’ data
Tom Potter reports a breach involving Colchester Borough Council: An urgent probe has been launched into how the personal details of benefit claimants were disclosed to some Colchester householders. The borough council is investigating the breach of personal data during the delivery of housing benefit notification letters to residents last week. […] The council said…
IN: Community Health Network patient test results missing
Jordan Fischer reports: Hundreds of patients’ test results went missing last month from a Community Health Network office, the hospital network announced Friday. In February, the staff at Physician Network Practice, located in the 2000 block of North Shadeland Avenue, noticed a binder with results had disappeared. The binder contained more than 600 hemoglobin and…