Jonathan Dame reports: Charles River Medical Associates says it lost a portable hard drive believed to contain personal information and x-ray images of everyone who received a bone density scan at its Framingham radiology lab within the past eight years. That is, 9,387 people. The practice mailed letters Monday to the patients whose medical records…
Category: Theft
Penn Medicine computer with patient info stolen
Mari A. Schaefer reports: About 1,000 patients at Penn Medicine are receiving letters saying a computer with some of their personal information on it was stolen. A laptop containing patient files was reported stolen from a car at the King of Prussia Mall parking lot on Nov. 30, according to a spokesperson at the University of Pennsylvania Health…
Laptop stolen from hospital in Erandwane
TNN reports: One out of the two laptops, used for entering patients’ records, was stolen from the fourth floor of a private hospital in Erandwane on Friday afternoon. Prasad Wahal, a hospital employee, lodged a complaint the with Alankar police. Wavhal told TOI the hospital had kept two laptops in the fourth-floor passage for the…
Guest’s personal information stolen from Romulus hotel, police seek culprit
Dane Sager Kelly reports on low-tech theft of identity info: Police are asking for public assistance in identifying and locating a man in connection with the theft of personal information at a Holiday Inn on Nov. 28. […] On Nov. 28, at approximately 4:35 a.m., the front desk received a phone call from a woman who claimed…
Lincoln Nonprofit’s Laptop Containing Vital Information Stolen in Car Break-In
Here is yet another reminder of (1) why you don’t leave devices in your car with critical information on them, and (2) why you need backups of mission critical data. Doug Johnson reports: LINCOLN — A Lincoln charity is desperate for help after their laptop was stolen from a Natomas restaurant parking lot. Maria &…
Louisiana State University notifying 5,500 former and current students after laptop stolen from employee’s car
So it’s the end of 2017 but we’re still hearing about laptops being stolen from locked cars and that the devices were password-protected? If the U.S. Education Department started cracking down in terms of enforcement, might it make any difference? Asking for a friend, of course….. KTBS reports: LSU is mailing letters to approximately 5,500…