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…
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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…
Equifax mistakenly sends woman 300 other people’s credit reports
So it appears that Equifax mistakenly sent a woman in Maine 300 other people’s credit reports after she requested her own. Read about it on WGME and BDN. So far, Equifax hasn’t offered any explanation as to how this occurred, but given how embarrassing this is for them, I’m sure they’ll follow up.
EMC data security fails the old fashioned way
David Chernicoff writes: I received an interesting letter in the mail yesterday from EMC Corporation. It seems that at some point in the last two months of 2014 they managed to lose control of my basic personal information, including my date of birth and Social Security number — giving the ability to whoever acquired the…
SG: Is that your name, address, phone number in the dump?
Grace Chng reports: Personal information is still being improperly collected, used and disposed of, even though there is a new law to protect personal data. Seventy organisations – especially those in retail, healthcare and property – are under investigation following complaints that they used e-mail addresses and other personal information for marketing purposes or collected…
California Department of Justice Investigates Berkeley Health Center, and Look What Center Left Behind!
Sam Levin reports: In February, the Berkeley Health Center, a clinic that provided medical services to low-income patients, closed down in the wake of serious financial troubles, including allegations that it had mismanaged public funds. A federal judge forced the clinic out of its site at 2908 Ellsworth Street in South Berkeley after the nonprofit healthcare…