Ten patients’ personal information has been lost after a sales vehicle containing a set of documents was stolen from a car park. Details of the physicians looking after the patients are also missing, along with the name, date of birth, age, gender, blood test data and questionnaire sheets detailing reactions to medications of the people…
Category: Theft
TX: Hundreds of Records Stolen from St. David’s Medical Plaza
An Austin man is under arrest for taking hundreds of personal records. An arrest affidavit for David Perkins Jr. says he worked as a delivery driver for Austin Archives. Police say he went to pick up medical records at Saint David’s Medical Plaza, but he never went back to work to return them. Perkins is…
OR: Stolen laptop creates a stir at Southwestern
Erica Rush reports: The privacy of hundreds of community college students is put at risk, after someone steals a laptop computer from the campus at Southwestern Oregon Community College. The school issued a press release on Friday stating that a new computer that contained student records for approximately 200 current and former students at Southwestern…
OH: ID-theft protection extended to more school employees
Jennifer Smith Richards reports: Roughly 800 Columbus schools employees are being offered free credit monitoring services, just in case their information was compromised, the district said today. A computer printout with at least 50 employees’ personal information, including Social Security numbers, was found during a police raid on an East Side home Saturday. Until this…
Seventh Day Adventist Church laptop with retirement plan data stolen
On December 13, a laptop computer assigned to an employee of the North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists Retirement Plans was stolen. The computer contained personal information including names and Social Security numbers on 292 residents of New Hampshire; the total number of individuals affected was not reported [pdf]. The laptop was recovered four days…
Innodata Isogen employee data on stolen laptop
Another day, another laptop stolen from an employee’s vehicle. This time, it was Innodata Isogen, who informed the New Hampshire Attorney General that on December 23, a laptop and benefit plan enrollment sheets were stolen from an employee’s car in Wayne, New Jersey. The laptop and benefit plan enrollment sheets contained personal information such as…