Nate Morabito reports: Johnson City police are looking for the person who ransacked the Plymouth Road Department of Children’s Services building this weekend. According to the police report, officers believe a juvenile likely broke into the building to get the title to his car back. According to the report, that title was stripped from him after…
Category: Theft
Stolen Trade Center Management Associates employee data triggered homeland security concerns
In June, Trade Center Management Associates in Washington, D.C. became aware that employee data had been stolen from a TCMA facility. Employee information on the stolen equipment included names, SSN, and in some cases, fingerprints. Among those with data on the device were 284 Maryland residents. The TCMA describes itself as a private sector…
Farmers Insurance agent takes 4 mos. to notify policyholders of data theft
Computers stolen from a California agent of Farmers Insurance on March 16 contained sensitive policyholder data, but the policyholders were not notified of theft until the end of July. According to a notification sent by Farmers Insurance to the Maryland Attorney General’s Office, data on the stolen computers for an unspecified number of policyholders included…
Everywhere you look, there are breaches we didn’t know about…
Here are summaries of some other breach reports recently filed with the Maryland Attorney General’s Office. I’ve tried to sort them or organize them somewhat as I am going through them. Some of the incidents affect only a few individuals, while others impact many more. Most of them have never been reported in the…
Another laptop. Another car. Another “gah” moment.
Arizona-based Vision Quest provides services for youth in five states, including Maryland. In a letter sent to the Maryland Attorney General’s Office, Vision Quest reported that a laptop stolen from an employee’s car on June 7 contained client information such as’ names, addresses, Social Security Numbers, dates of birth, DJS number, and encounter information. …
Two More Courts Close the Doors on Data Breach Plaintiffs
Venkat Balasubramani discusses two recent court decisions that turned data breach plaintiffs away. The first case is the Hannaford case, discussed previously on this blog, but I was surprised to learn that the Providence Health System breach finally was decided: Paul v. Providence Health System-Oregon, (Ore. Ct. App. Oct. 6, 2010): this case involved the…