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Ca: UCP members ‘at risk for identity theft’ after laptop stolen, expert says

Posted on January 10, 2019 by Dissent

Lucie Edwardson reports: The United Conservative Party‘s privacy policies are being questioned after a party laptop was stolen out of an employee’s car in a parkade. The laptop contains the names, addresses and contact information of 40,000 UCP members. Experts say the language used in the memo to inform members was confusing and didn’t answer important questions….

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Convicted terrorist charged with stealing hard drive with victim data on it

Posted on January 10, 2019 by Dissent

AP reports: Belgian authorities said Wednesday that they have arrested a man who served jail time on terrorism charges over the theft of a computer hard drive containing autopsy reports about the victims of the suicide bombings in Brussels in 2016. Brussels prosecutor’s office spokesman Denis Goeman said the man, identified only by the initials…

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Solis Mammography notifies 500 patients and HHS after laptop theft

Posted on January 5, 2019 by Dissent

Their press release of December 14: Ben-Ora, Hansen & Vanesian Imaging, Ltd. d/b/a Solis Mammography (“Solis”) is committed to protecting the confidentiality and security of our patients’ information. Regrettably, this noticeconcerns an incident that involved some of that information. On October 17, 2018, we learned that a Solis computer had been stolen from our Phoenix location…

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Blue Cross: Theft of employee’s computer may have compromised 15,000 customers’ data

Posted on December 29, 2018 by Dissent

Dave Bartkowiak Jr. reports:  Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan announced Friday that the personal data of nearly 15,000 of Medicare Advantage members may have been compromised after an employee’s laptop computer was stolen in October.  Blue Cross said it was notified on Nov. 12, 2018 by COBX, a subsidiary company vendor serving Medicare Advantage business for them, that…

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Law firm notifies clients after backup drive stolen from lawyer’s car

Posted on December 22, 2018 by Dissent

I’ve often thrown up my cyber-hands in disgust at breaches that occur because people leave unencrypted PII or PHI in unattended vehicles. But sometimes, you read an incident report, and you can somewhat relate. This report by attorney Michael Koch, dba Lockhart, Britton & Koch in La Mesa, California is one of those times. From…

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Computer with data on 20,000 people stolen in Denmark

Posted on December 11, 2018 by Dissent

Confidential data on 20,000 residents in Gladsaxe, a municipality in central Zealand, were saved locally on a computer stolen that was recently stolen from the town’s city hall. The computer was stolen during a break-in between during the weekend of November 30th to December 3rd, Politiken reports. Information stored on the machine includes personal registration numbers, age, gender,…

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