As a follow-up to the incident reported here, a Culpeper resident wrote a letter to the editor of their local paper that provides a bit more information on the breach and the position of the town in terms of its responsibility — or lack of responsibility — to provide any free credit monitoring. According to…
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(Update) Laptop theft from Vavrinek, Trine, Day and Co. reportedly affected 50 banks
Add Mission Bank to what may become a whole list of banks affected when six laptops were stolen from accounting firm Vavrinek, Trine, Day and Co. on or about March 5. Borrego Bank was the first bank we learned about. Now Mission Bank, which reports that it first learned about the theft on April 1,…
NC: Moses Cone Memorial Hospital patient data stolen from vendor
In what appears to be the third incident in the past week involving patient data and a third-party breach, personal information of more than 14,000 Moses Cone Health System patients was on a laptop stolen from VHA in Georgia. According to VHA’s web site, they serve 1,400 not-for-profit hospitals and more than 21,000 non-acute care…
MS: CBIZ Medical Management Professionals computer with patient records stolen
Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center contracts with Lakeland Radiologists for radiology services for their patients. Lakeland Radiologists, in turn, contracts with CBIZ Medical Management Professionals to bill patients. On February 23, a computer was stolen from CBIZ that contained radiology reports on patients seen at Lakeland Radiologists. According to an Associated Press story, SMRMC is…
MD: Patient records stolen
Liz Holland of The Daily Times reports that up to 100,000 patients of Peninsula Orthopaedic Associates are being notified that their personal information has been stolen: The records from Peninsula Orthopaedic — which has offices in Salisbury and Berlin — were stolen March 25 while in transport to an off-site storage facility, Mathias said in…
Auditing firm in multiple-bank breach identified
This story updates the breach first reported yesterday. J. Harry Jones of the Union-Tribune confirms that laptop computers stolen from an accounting firm may contain personal financial information of many more banks and people than first revealed. According to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, the laptops were stolen between 4:30 p.m. March 4 and 7…