Two breach reports from India provide insufficient detail as to whether, or how much, personally identifiable information might be involved but one case involves a laptop stolen from a judge’s chamber and the other involves a cellphone belonging to an assistant advocate that was stolen inside the Supreme Court building. CCTV cameras did not capture…
Category: Theft
A home invasion leads to a breach for a New Hampshire lawyer
Two heads are better than one. Evan Francen noticed a breach report on the New Hampshire Attorney General’s site that I apparently missed back in July. A laptop containing confidential and personal information of clients of attorney George R. LaRocque, Jr. was stolen during a home invasion. Read more about the incident with Evan’s commentary…
Pointer: Over 23,000 patients notified in three breaches reported to HHS
In addition to a LabCorp breach where we do not have a lot of information other than 507 patients were notified of theft of paper records with their PHI, I also just posted three other newly revealed breaches over on PHIprivacy.net that resulted in over 23,000 patients being notified. You can read about those…
CA: Authorities investigate elaborate counterfeit, ID theft ring
Richard Halstead reports: Authorities are investigating an elaborate counterfeiting operation involving stolen mail from throughout Marin County, credit card numbers of more than 200 people, counterfeit cash, fake checks, printers and laptop computers. The operation came to light Aug. 27, when Novato police Officer Blake Dunbar checked up on a parolee whose name he recognized…
(follow-up) UK: St Albans laptop theft warning
Alex Lewis reports: Security measures to protect people whose personal details were on a laptop stolen from the district council offices are soon to lapse, an opposition councillor has warned. After a laptop containing names and addresses of thousands of St Albans postal voters went missing in October last year, the council registered the details…
Device with personal information stolen off campus
Jocelyn Wright provides additional details on the previously mentioned breach involving a device stolen from Rice University. As the headline indicates in their student newspaper suggests, it appears that the device was stolen off-campus, although the university is not providing additional detail on that. The article also indicates that the data on the…