The Saudi Press Agency reports: The U.S. Embassy in Mexico said Wednesday that a truck carrying visas was hijacked in Mexico and the visas stolen. According to a statement from the embassy, the theft occurred on June 7 “in northern Mexico.” Read more on SPA.
Category: Theft
SC: EMS agency notifies patients about missing medical data
Teddy Kulmala reports: A safe with flash drives and hard drives that stored personal and medical information went missing from the Lancaster County EMS, and county officials are mailing letters to patients who have received EMS care since 2004. The safe was discovered missing from a county building on April 16, county officials say. Inside…
St. Martin Parish School Based Health Centers breach
As I’ve often noted on PogoWasRight.org, student health records are generally covered under FERPA, not HIPAA. When a school district provides a health center, however, the student’s health records may be covered by HIPAA, as seems to be the case with the St. Martin Parish School Based Health Centers in Louisiana. They notified HHS last…
Laptops stolen from National Seating and Mobility contained some patient information
National Seating and Mobility notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office on June 12 of an incident that occurred on April 14, 2015 when two laptops, a smartphone, a backpack, and a briefcase were stolen from two employees’ locked work vans in Atlanta, Georgia. The incidents were immediately reported to the police and NSM was…
Shorter University data breach lawsuit advances
Oops – found this one sitting in drafts folder. I should have posted it two weeks ago. Law360 reports: A Georgia federal judge on Thursday trimmed breach of contract and negligent misrepresentation claims from a proposed putative class action over the theft of student medical data at a state university, but refused to let the…
NH: Stolen laptop contained student information from Monadnock Regional School District
On June 5, Monadnock Regional School District nofitied the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that a laptop stolen from an employee’s residence contained unencrypted information on 54 students. The employee was authorized to take work home. Reading further into the letter, however, it appears that the laptop was stolen from the employee’s vehicle, not their…