From the agency’s web site, dated today: A computer and protective case has been stolen from a locked state vehicle of an Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship employee. This theft has placed at risk the personal information of Iowans that are participating in the Department’s Horse and Dog Breeding Program. Through this program…
Category: Theft
Colorado agency notifies 105,470 clients of stolen hard drive
The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing is notifying 105,470 clients receiving state-provided health insurance that a stolen hard drive contained some of their personal information. A statement on the agency’s web site does not provide much detail and simply says: State officials discovered that there was an unauthorized removal of a computer…
New CD on German tax dodgers surfaces
Another CD packed with evidence of German tax evasion on money totalling €500 million has been spirited out of a bank in Liechtenstein and is being offered to investigators, media reported Thursday. The data was offered to tax authorities in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein months ago. The CD contains details of hundreds of Germans…
CT: Laptop stolen from Dept. of Labor
Leanne Gendreau reports: A laptop containing confidential information about unemployment insurance claims with wage discrepancy complaints and some Bridgeport area employers was stolen this week and state police are investigating. The state Department of Labor is notifying about 5,000 people and employers by mail. The laptop was taken during a recent break-in at the Department…
(follow-up) TN: BlueCross completes analysis of data theft
Emily Bregel reports: BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee has wrapped up its assessment of customer data that was stolen in an October 2009 robbery of its abandoned Eastgate Town Center office. The state’s largest health insurer has concluded that nearly 1 million BlueCross members were affected by the theft, the same number stated in an earlier…
Prince William County: Stolen Blackberry Contained Protected Health Information of 669 County Residents
Overnight, between June 18 and June 19, 2010, a Prince William County employee with the Intellectual Disabilities Case Management (IDCM) Program had a government-issued Blackberry stolen from the employee’s locked vehicle, which was parked in the driveway of the employee’s home. Saved onto the Blackberry’s hard drive along with some case files was the full…