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UK: Lost laptop exposes thousands of pension records

Posted on May 28, 2009 by Dissent

John Leyden of The Register reports on the latest data protection cockup: A lost laptop containing the personal data of 109,000 Pensions Trust’s members has sparked the latest in a growing list of information security breach alerts. The missing machine was stolen from the offices of NorthgateArinso, suppliers of the Pensions Trust’s computerised pensions administration…

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(follow-up) UK: Rapists demand cash over lost data stick

Posted on May 16, 2009 by Dissent

From the jailhouse-lawyers dept: Laura Clout of The Daily Express reports that 13 prisoners, including two serial rapists, have submitted claims for compensation of up to £30,000 each over a computer memory stick lost by a firm working for the Home Office, PA Consulting. The prisoners claim that that the loss of their personal data…

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(Follow-up) Stolen Peninsula Orthopaedic backup tapes contained some financial info

Posted on May 2, 2009 by Dissent

When backup tapes containing patient information on patients of Peninsula Orthopaedic Associates were stolen while in transit, the practice notified approximately 100,000 patients. Now, Earl Holland reports that the group subsequently discovered that the stolen backup tape also contained credit or debit card information on up to 400 patients. Peninsula Orthopaedic Associates has sent an…

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(follow-up) Culpeper breach: no one’s responsible because it was a hack?

Posted on April 25, 2009 by Dissent

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

Posted on April 17, 2009 by Dissent

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,…

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NC: Moses Cone Memorial Hospital patient data stolen from vendor

Posted on April 13, 2009 by Dissent

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…

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