The Canadian Press reports: Alberta Health Services (AHS) says a computer hard drive that contained the personal health information of about 650 patients has been missing since August. The agency says the external drive vanished from a cardiac outpatient clinical lab at the Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute in Edmonton. It says the disappearance could be linked to a…
Category: Theft
NZ: Confidential information at risk after computer stolen from Commerce Commission
James Fyfe and Edward O’Driscoll report: A computer holding hundreds of meeting and interview transcripts has been stolen from the Commerce Commission. The computer belonged to an external provider and was taken last week, the Commerce Commission said in a statement on Tuesday. The transcripts cover a range of the commission’s work and may date…
Ahmedabad: 72 sacks of ID documents stolen from health centre
TNN reports that 72 sacks full of vital documents of citizens have gone missing from AMC’s urban health centre in Vejalpur. This is one of those data breaches that make you just … groan. The documents had gotten wet in June due to a leak in the roof of the storeroom where they had been…
Who stole data from Aircraft Carrier INS Vikrant? Espionage angle in Cochin Shipyard probe
Jijo Jacob reports: The data theft at INS Vikrant, India’s first Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC), has taken a national security dimension with reports saying that the espionage angle cannot be ruled out. The theft of computer hard discs, random access memory (RAM) and processor from the ship, which is being built at the Cochin Shipyard…
Check-in computers stolen in Atlanta hold statewide voter data
Mark Niesse Arielle Kass report: Two computers that are used to check in voters were stolen from a west Atlanta precinct hours before polls opened Tuesday for a city school board election. [..] The express poll computers contain names, addresses, birth dates and driver’s license information for every voter in the state, said Richard Barron, Fulton…
Camera Containing Autopsy Photos Stolen From Loyola University Medical Center Pathology Lab
Megan Hickey reports: Loyola University Medical Center confirmed that a camera containing the autopsy photos of several patients over a period of more than a year was stolen from the hospital’s pathology lab, and the personal health information of those patients has not been recovered. A letter to one deceased patient’s family indicated that the…