Shane Starling reports: Multinational botanicals giant Sabinsa is suing a former employee, Binoy Mathew, and the managing director of BioActives, the firm with whom he allegedly shared stolen customer lists, technical and other data. Read more on Nutraingredients.
Category: Theft
AZ: Laptop stolen from EXOS contained protected health information
EXOS (formerly known as Athletes’ Performance) recently notified HHS of a laptop theft affecting 854 clients. The incident was reported to HHS on July 28, but was only added to the public breach tool today. In a letter dated August 1, which EXOS was kind enough to provide to DataBreaches.net, Garrett Felix, Information Security Officer for EXOS, writes, in part: Recently, we learned…
UK: Patients warned of ‘shocking’ data breach after nurse’s bag stolen from car in Cambridge
Cambridge News reports: Patients have been warned of a potential breach of their data after a nurse’s car was broken into and her handbag stolen. An out of hours car, used by a community nurse with Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT), was broken into on July 9 while parked outside a patient’s home in east Chesterton…
Psychiatrist’s laptop stolen; patients notified (UPDATED)
Brian Halevie-Goldman, a psychiatrist involved in the BALCO dope-prescribing scandal in major league sports, recently notified HHS of a stolen laptop containing information on 2000 patients. I can find no substitute notice or other information at this time, and this post will be updated if I do find something. Casewatch summarized some of Halevie-Goldman’s prior…
Data breaches at Advocate Health Care leads to biggest ever settlement
I’ve had a lot of coverage of Advocate Health’s breaches over the past years that you can access here. Here’s is HHS’s announcement of the settlement of their charges: Advocate Health Care Network (Advocate) has agreed to a settlement with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR), for multiple…
Some recent additions to HHS’s breach tool
Sometimes it takes a while to find documentation on breaches posted on HHS’s public breach tool. Here are some details on two breaches added to their site this month: Blaine Chiropractic Center – MN On July 14, HHS posted an entry for Blaine Chiropractic Center in Minnesota that affected 1,945 patients. The incident was coded as…