The Post and Courier provides some more information about a University of North Dakota breach that was originally reported in October 2008. John McDermott and the AP report: A computer that was swiped from a car in Charleston last year contained personal financial information on 84,000 University of North Dakota donors, it was disclosed this…
Category: Theft
Bits n’ Pieces
In the justice system: Richard J. Berger has been sentenced to for 13 months and ordered to repay about $130,000 after admitting that he illegally accessed insurance company computers at The Hartford and Sunlife Financial in a scheme to steal annuity clients. More. Julia Caldwell and Jacqueline Colbert, both Taco Bell of Laurel employees, have…
HSE stolen laptop contains personal financial data
A non-encrypted laptop computer stolen from a Health Service Executive (HSE) office contains sensitive personal financial data on people who have approached community welfare officers seeking assistance. The laptop containing the data was one of 15 computers stolen from HSE offices in Roscommon town at the weekend. […] One of the two non-encrypted laptops contained…
Stolen safe with Breakout Apparel customer checks recovered
I haven’t seen this in any media source, but the Wisconsin Office of Privacy Protection updated its site to report an incident involving Breakout Apparel Co. According to the site, a burglary occurred at the business and a safe with checks from customers along with cash was stolen. A total of 222 customers who paid…
UK:Patient records stolen – but patients not told
Nick Spoors of Northampton Chronicle reports: The personal information of up to 100 Northampton NHS patients was lost after a community nurse’s motorbike was stolen – but the patients were never told, it has been revealed. According to NHS Northamptonshire board papers released this week, the GP surgery-based nurse was visiting a home in Park…
OR: OHSU Alerts Patients After Laptop Stolen
Oregon Health & Science University is contacting 1,000 patients after a physician’s laptop was stolen from a car parked at the doctor’s Washington County home. Patient names, treatment dates, short medical treatment summaries and medical record numbers were stored on the computer, said OHSU spokesman Jim Newman in a news release. The computer was password-protected…