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Category: Theft

Postal employee charged with theft of thousands of credit cards

Posted on July 27, 2016 by Dissent

And then sometimes, it’s still just low-tech old-fashioned theft: A former U.S. Postal Service employee appeared in federal court earlier this month after agreeing to plead guilty to stealing and selling thousands of credit cards from the mail, the Justice Department said. The 48-year-old California man, who had worked for USPS for more than 20…

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TX: StarCare Specialty Health System notifies patients after burglar snatches laptop, paper files

Posted on July 26, 2016 by Dissent

From the notice on their web site: StarCare Specialty Health System is in the process of notifying individuals regarding an unauthorized disclosure of protected health information. The breach of confidential information may have affected nearly 2,900 individuals who received Intellectual Developmental Disabilities program services, Behavioral Health program services, and Therapeutic Treatment Community services from StarCare…

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Sunbury Plaza Dental notifies patients after stored records were burglarized

Posted on July 22, 2016 by Dissent

Sunbury Plaza Dental in Ohio has notified HHS of a breach that impacted 7,784 patients. Their public notice explains that on May 25, they were notified by local law enforcement that their secured storage unit containing business records had been burglarized sometime between March 10th and March 20, 2016. We were not aware of any…

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OHSU pays nearly $3 million over two data breaches in 2013

Posted on July 13, 2016 by Dissent

Lynn Terry has the scoop on what appears to be a new HHS resolution agreement. There’s nothing up on HHS’s site or in my mailbox yet about this one, but I had covered the four breaches mentioned in her report as well as a more recent breach (search OHSU). Oregon Health & Science University has…

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Kaiser Permanente notifies patients after stolen ultrasound machines were recovered

Posted on July 13, 2016 by Dissent

Kaiser Permanente of Northern California is notifying patients after discover of an insider theft. In a letter template uploaded to the California Attorney General’s web site today, Angela Anderson, KP’s Regional Privacy and Security Officer, writes that on June 10, they learned that a number of ultrasound machines had been stolen by two KP employees. The machines were…

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Laptop theft puts personal information of hundreds of Pennsylvania taxpayers at risk

Posted on July 12, 2016 by Dissent

WTAE reports that the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue is notifying 865 taxpayers whose information was on a stolen laptop. Why they would claim this notification is in an “abundance of caution” defies belief. An “abundance of caution” would have involved deploying adequate security and not leaving the damned laptops in an unattended vehicle. Read more…

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