Chris Opfer writes: Six years after Shane Enslin left his repairman job at a Coca-Cola distribution plant in Pennsylvania, the company told him that his Social Security number and other personal information might have fallen into the wrong hands. A few months later, a declined credit card upended his family vacation. Then came a third…
Category: Theft
Montana State University Billings notifying students after laptop was stolen in November
Ugh. Another laptop was apparently stolen from an employee’s car. This one was from the education sector, but it contained some student health information and health insurance information. The incident was reported by Montana State University Billings to the Montana Attorney General’s Office on January 5, and letters are going out today to affected students….
Coplin Health Systems notifies 43,000 patients after laptop stolen from employee’s car
I really think that if HHS/OCR handed out a few well-advertised very very large monetary penalties, maybe these unencrypted devices stolen from car incidents would decrease. It really is ridiculous that this is still happening in 2018. It’s one thing if we’re talking about a small non-profit or something where they may not have resources…
MA: Framingham radiology lab notifies 9,387 patients after drive discovered missing
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…
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…