Jonathon Hill reports: The Aneurin Bevan University Health Board says it is struggling to respond to patient enquiries after theft of important equipment from one of its sites. In a statement the health board has said: “Due to a break in at one of our premises last night, our Trauma and Orthopaedic Outpatients team is…
Category: Theft
NL: A hard disk with data of 30,000 people stolen from the Amsterdam tax office
Jeffrey Clark reports: A hard drive was stolen from a computer used to scan incoming mail items from Municipal Tax Service buildings in Amsterdam. Alderman Victor Everhardt (Finance) wrote this in a letter to City Council (pdf). The hard drive contains document scans sent by nearly 30,000 taxpayers from July 2020 to March 2021. Read…
Winnipeg Regional Health Authority is contacting 58 people after a data breach
ChrisD reports: The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority is contacting 58 people after a data breach. The WRHA says a home care employee had a bag stolen from her vehicle containing employees’ daily schedule of activities, including personal health information for her clients on March 26. The forms that were in the bag may have contained…
Decrypted: How bad was the US Capitol breach for cybersecurity?
Zack Whittaker reports on concerns that were raised after the massive security failure at the Capitol that resulted in attackers having access to papers, hard drives and more. Zack reiterates some comforting thoughts that were offered on Twitter in the aftermath of the rampage: Most lawmakers don’t have ready access to classified materials, unless it’s…
5th Avenue Theatre Takes Action Following Theft of Employee Data in August
SEATTLE, Dec. 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — The 5th Avenue Theatre (the “Theatre”) announced today that it suffered a break-in and theft which it first learned of on August 30, 2020 (the “Incident”). The Incident occurred overnight on August 29, 2020 where unauthorized individuals broke into the Theatre, among other offices in the building, and stole certain computer back-up tapes and specialized equipment which…
Helena Public Schools notifies some employees after burglar snatched USB with their timesheets
Helena Public Schools recently notified some current and former employees involved in the after-school student program that their data was on a stolen USB drive. According to their notification letter, on September 28, 2020, the district discovered that the Lincoln Elementary School building had been burglarized over the previous weekend. Among several items that were…