KEZI in Oregon reports: A Reedsport clinic is alerting patients about a recent data breach. Police are looking for a hard drive containing patient information from Dunes Family Health Care. The organization that downloads and stores the clinic’s electronic records says it went missing on March 11. The clinic sent notices to more than 16,000…
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CA: Concerns raised about paperwork spilled in San Rafael Highway 101 mishap
Will Jason reports that 20 boxes of documents with sensitive medical and financial information went flying off the back of truck owned by Baker Moving and Storage after it experienced a flat tire on Highway 101 near the Marin Civic Center while moving the records from one warehouse to another: Baker, whose company is based in…
Laptop stolen from contractor’s car affects 1,700 who sought to adopt children through Catholic Social Services
A stolen laptop containing personal and protected health information of 1,700 clients of Catholic Social Services in Anchorage has resulted in a notification to the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services and affected clients. According to a notice on the CSS’s web site dated March 30: on February 2nd, CSS learned of a theft that had…
Best Buy Customers Beware: Another Email Security Breach
MB Quirk of The Consumerist cites an email from Best Buy to its customers – and no, this is apparently not the Epsilon breach, but yet another breach involving Best Buy customers: Dear Valued Best Buy Customer, We have discovered that a former business partner’s files containing the email addresses of some Best Buy customers…
CORRECTED: When was Epsilon breached?
Curiouser and curiouser. TripAdvisor.com reported a breach on March 24. At the time, some sources suggested it was a SQL injection, although I mentioned that there was some possibility it was due to a breach at an email service provider. Now TripAdvisor.com has sent out notices that they have been affected by the Epsilon breach….
Breach of S&D Coffee web site results in notifications to customers
S&D Coffee recently notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that a security breach involving its online e-commerce site resulted in the compromise of customers’ names, addresses, email addresses, and credit card numbers. The site is hosted by E-Dreamz, who discovered the breach on February 7 and notified S&D Coffee. The coffee retailed indicated that it…