Add Idaho Power to the list of those affected by the Mercer breach previously reported on this site.
Category: Subcontractor
St. Luke’s notifies employees that lost computer tape contains their personal information
Note: this incident is related to a breach previously reported on DataBreaches.net. Katy Moeller reports: St. Luke’s Health System has notified several thousand hospital employees in Boise, Wood River and Twin Falls that a computer back-up tape containing some of their personal information went missing in an office move. St. Luke’s spokesman Ken Dey said…
South Shore Hospital Breach Could Affect 800,000
South Shore Hospital today reported that back-up computer files containing personal, health and financial information may have been lost by a professional data management company. The hospital had engaged the company to destroy the files because they were in a format the hospital no longer uses. The hospital has no evidence that information on the…
California Department of Health Care Services notifies 29,808 of missing CD
On July 6, the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) issued the following press release: The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) has reported to federal authorities that a missing compact disc (CD) delivered to the department may not have been encrypted by the sender, Care 1st Health Plan. The CD contains personal…
WI: Village of Big Bend Employees Have Payroll Info Stolen
Employees of a Waukesha County village are worried about identity theft, after their payroll information was stolen. Big Bend Village Clerk Bobbi Wopper says the company that processes the village’s payroll had a laptop stolen from a car in Milwaukee last week. And police have not recovered that computer. She did not say who the…
25,000 sign up for state credit protection after data lost
Usually only a very small percentage of those offered free credit monitoring after a breach sign up for it. I was therefore surprised to see almost a third of those affected by one breach in Alaska earlier this year sign up. Pat Forgey reports: More than 25,000 anxious public employees and retirees have signed up…