I really wish OCR would list the types of information involved in the breaches they report on their site. In digging into one of their newly added reports, however, I found that the incident did include SSN: Rockbridge Area Community Services State: Virginia Approx. # of Individuals Affected: 500 Date of Breach: 3/12/10 Type of…
Category: Theft
Data stolen from NADRA office in Karachi
From the that’s-all-they-wrote dept: LAHORE: Unidentified men broke into the premises of the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) office at the Shah Faisal Colony in Karachi and stole some very important data, a private television channel reported on Monday. According to the channel, the thieves had sneaked into the NADRA office through a window…
Stolen server contains medical info on 40,000 eye patients
OCR added a few more breaches to its list. Two were covered earlier today on PHIprivacy.net, but the third one, added later in the day, affected 40,000 people: Silicon Valley Eyecare Optometry and Contact Lenses State: California Approx. # of Individuals Affected: 40,000 Date of Breach: 4/02/10 Type of Breach: Theft Location of Breached Information:…
GA: Defendants Charged in Widespread Identity Theft Scheme
Opeoluwa Adigun a/k/a Mary Afolabi, age unknown, and Chukwuka Onyekaba a/k/a Gabriel Onyekaba, 32, both of Marietta, Georgia, have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of stealing the identities of more than 80 individuals in the Atlanta metropolitan area and opening credit card accounts, loans, and bank accounts in the names of…
Laptop stolen from VA contractor contains veterans’ personal data
Bob Brewin reports on a breach that I don’t think we knew about here: A laptop belonging to a contractor working for the Veterans Affairs Department was stolen earlier this year and the personal data on hundreds of veterans stored on the computer was not encrypted, a violation of a VA information technology policy, said…
NM Medicaid members told about security breach (updated)
This article replaces an earlier article which had less detail: The New Mexico Human Services Department said Tuesday that about 9,600 members of its Salud! Medicaid plan and fee for service members might have had their personal information, including Social Security numbers, compromised. […] The potential compromise occurred on March 20 in Chicago when an…