March seems to have been a relatively quiet month for the Veterans Administration in terms of breaches reported to Congress. The only incident of note involved the Seattle VA. According to their monthly report, during the night of February 28, a briefcase containing two lists of patient names was stolen from a physician’s locked vehicle….
Category: Theft
Lessons from the Olympus Mortgage vs. Guaranteed Rate Case
Craig Nazarro of Baker Donelson writes about an insider breach case previously covered on this blog: Late last month a jury awarded Mount Olympus Mortgage Company (MOMC) more than $25 million for their claims against Guaranteed Rate (Guaranteed), which alleged Guaranteed along with other former employees of MOMC illegally transferred hundreds of loan files from…
OptumRx notifying patients after laptop with PHI stolen from vendor’s unattended vehicle
Now what vendor was this? I don’t see anything in recent reports or on HHS’s public breach tool that would identify the vendor. From a notification template by OptumRx: We wanted to make you aware of a recent incident that may have affected some of your health information. On March 22, 2016, we were notified…
Katherman Kitts notifies clients whose identity and financial information was stolen from unattended vehicle
It’s 2016, and yet we’re still seeing totally and easily avoidable data breaches like this one, reported by Katherman Kitts: On February 25, 2016, hard drives containing backup files for one of the firm’s servers, along with other incidental items, were stolen from a partner’s locked vehicle. These files may have contained some of your…
NM: Northern Navajo Medical Center patient information turns up in NM storage units
AP reports: A former employee at a northwestern New Mexico hospital walked off with information on nearly 7,500 patients, hospital officials said. Documents in cardboard boxes turned up in storage units near Farmington. They were taken from the Northern Navajo Medical Center in Shiprock last fall without authorization, officials said. Read more on KOAT. Notification…
WA: Olympia man suspected of stealing hard drives from federal offices
Amelia Dickson reports: A Thurston County judge has set bail at $10,000 for Nicholas W. Perring, an Olympia man suspected of stealing hard drives containing names and Social Security numbers from a federal office. […] According to court documents, Perring is suspected of breaking into four offices, all at 701 Capitol Way S., on two…